Calhoun emphasizes the primacy of the idea of subsidiarity: popular rule is best expressed in local communities that are nearly autonomous while serving as units of a larger society.

Jaffa argues that Bork's argument represents legal positivism and moral relativism akin to that expressed by John C. Calhoun and the Confederacy during the Civil War.

* 1832 – John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.

Under President James Monroe, Secretary of War John C. Calhoun devised the first plans for Indian removal.

President John Quincy Adams assumed the Calhoun – Monroe policy and was determined to remove the Indians by non-forceful means, but Georgia refused to submit to Adams ' request and forced Adams to make a treaty with Creeks and Cherokees granting Georgia what it wanted.

In the years leading up to the Nullification Crisis, the resolutions divided Jeffersonian democrats, with states ' rights proponents such as John C. Calhoun supporting the Principles of ' 98 and President Andrew Jackson opposing them.

He won the lasting regard of Jackson by his courtesies to Peggy Eaton, wife of Secretary of War John H. Eaton, with whom the wives of the cabinet officers led by Vice President Calhoun's wife, Floride Calhoun had refused to associate in the Petticoat Affair.

* 1782 – John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1850 )

As President of the Senate, John Adams cast twenty-nine tie-breaking votes, a record that no successor except for John C. Calhoun even threatened.

A Vice President could even serve under different administrations, as George Clinton and John C. Calhoun have done.

John C. Calhoun was the first Vice President to resign from office.

As a result, the Vice Presidency was left vacant 16 times — sometimes for nearly four years — until the next ensuing election and inauguration: eight times due to the death of the sitting president, resulting in the Vice Presidents becoming President ; seven times due to the death of the sitting Vice President ; and once due to the resignation of Vice President John C. Calhoun to become a senator.

Calhoun resigned because he had been dropped from the ticket by President Andrew Jackson in favor of Martin Van Buren.

* March 18 – John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1850 )

* March 31 – John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States ( b. 1782 )

President Jackson and Vice President John C. Calhoun had a strained relationship for a number of reasons including the involvement of Calhoun's wife, Floride in the Eaton affair.

Calhoun further aggravated the President in the summer of 1831 when he issued his " Fort Hill Letter ", in which he outlined the constitutional basis for a state's ability to nullify an act of Congress.

The final blow to the Jackson-Calhoun relationship came when the President nominated Van Buren to serve as Minister to the United Kingdom and the vote in the Senate ended in a tie, which Calhoun broke by voting against confirmation on January 25, 1832.

Henry Clay takes the floor of the Old Senate Chamber ; Vice President Millard Fillmore presides as he, John C. Calhoun | Calhoun, and Daniel Webster | Webster look on.

Calhoun held major political offices, serving terms in the United States House of Representatives, United States Senate and as Vice President of the United States, as well as secretary of war and state.

During her husband's second term as Vice President, Floride Calhoun was a central figure in the Petticoat affair.

In 1817, President James Monroe appointed Calhoun Secretary of War, where he served until 1825.

Monroe made balanced Cabinet choices, naming a southerner, John C. Calhoun, as Secretary of War, and a northerner, John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of State.

Wilson, after deliberating, decided keeping Marshall on would demonstrate party unity ; thus in 1916 Marshall won reelection over the still divided Republican Party and became the first vice president re-elected since John C. Calhoun in 1828, and Wilson and Marshall became the first president and vice president team to be re-elected since Monroe and Tompkins in 1820.

In May 1830, Jackson discovered that Calhoun had asked President Monroe to censure then-General Jackson for his invasion of Spanish Florida in 1818.

Jackson had invaded Florida during the First Seminole War without explicit public authorization from Calhoun or Monroe.

President James Monroe seriously considered Johnson for the position of Secretary of War after Henry Clay declined the office, but the post ultimately went to John C. Calhoun.

Monroe county was established shortly after the signing of the Calhoun Treaty by the Cherokee in 1819, which relinquished the area to the United States.

Pushmataha Area Council serves Calhoun, Chickasaw, Monroe, Webster, Oktibbeha, Clay, Lowndes, Winston, Choctaw and Noxubee counties in north Mississippi.

In 1819, the Cherokee signed the Calhoun Treaty, relinquishing what is now Monroe County to the United States.

Many stars, both well-known and new, came to perform, including Bob Hope, Errol Flynn, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O ' Connor, Piper Laurie, Jane Russell, Paul Douglas, Terry Moore, Marilyn Monroe, Danny Kaye, Rory Calhoun, Mickey Rooney, Jayne Mansfield, Al Jolson and many others.

It is also grown in Harrow and Ruthven, Ontario, and in Kelowna, B. C., Canada ; Floyd, Wythe, Rockbridge, and Fauquier counties, Virginia ; Harford County, Maryland at Fiore Winery on Maryland's Eastern Shore ; Daviess County, Kentucky ; Greenbrier, Calhoun, Roane, and Mineral counties in West Virginia ; Allegan County, Michigan ; the Shawnee Hills AVA of southern Illinois ; Monroe County, Indiana ; the Yadkin Valley and Haw River Valley of North Carolina ; eastern Missouri ; south-central Kansas ; the Hunter Valley and other warm, humid regions in Australia ; and also in France, although it can not be sold as a quality wine in Europe.

Prominent spokesmen for Jeffersonian principles included Madison, Albert Gallatin, John Randolph of Roanoke, Nathaniel Macon, John Taylor of Caroline, James Monroe, John C. Calhoun, John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay ( with the last three taking new paths after 1828 ).

They were supported by President James Monroe, an original Jeffersonian, and included John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun.

Fort Wool ( originally named Fort Calhoun ) was the companion to Fort Monroe ( Monroe is on the northern side of the channel ) in protecting Hampton Roads from seafaring threats.

Between Ruston and Monroe the highway serves the small communities of Choudrant and Calhoun.

Even John C. Calhoun, described as a reluctant expansionist who strongly disagreed with intervention on the basis of the Monroe Doctrine, concurred that " it is indispensable to the safety of the United States that this island should not be in certain hands ," likely referring to Britain.

Vanderlyn returned to the United States in 1815, and painted portraits of various eminent men, including Washington ( for the U. S. House of Representatives ), James Monroe, John C. Calhoun, Governor Joseph C. Yates, Governor George Clinton, Andrew Jackson, and Zachary Taylor.

The film stars Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall, as three gold diggers along with William Powell, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, Cameron Mitchell, Alex D ' Arcy, and Fred Clark.

The jurisdiction of the Southern District of Illinois comprises the following counties: Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Cumberland, Edwards, Effingham, Fayette, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Jersey, Johnson, Lawrence, Madison, Marion, Massac, Monroe, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Richland, Saline, St. Clair, Union, Wabash, Washington, Wayne, White, and Williamson.

A man-made island across the navigational channel of the mouth of Hampton Roads from Old Point Comfort was created for Fort Calhoun ( a portion of the Fort Monroe complex later renamed Fort Wool ).

As a young first lieutenant and engineer in the U. S. Army, Robert E. Lee was stationed there from 1831 to 1834, and played a major role in the final construction of both Fort Monroe and its opposite, Fort Calhoun.