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Albion is a city in Calhoun County in the south central region of the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan.
West is the city of Albion and beyond that the cities of Marshall and Battle Creek, all in Calhoun County.
At one end of the room near the Old Supreme Court Chamber is a statue of John C. Calhoun.
John Quincy Adams concluded in 1821 that: " Calhoun is a man of fair and candid mind, of honorable principles, of clear and quick understanding, of cool self-possession, of enlarged philosophical views, and of ardent patriotism.
" Historian Charles Wiltse agrees, noting, " Though he is known today primarily for his sectionalism, Calhoun was the last of the great political leaders of his time to take a sectional position — later than Daniel Webster, later than Henry Clay, later than Adams himself.
An observer commented that Calhoun was " the most elegant speaker that sits in the House ... His gestures are easy and graceful, his manner forcible, and language elegant ; but above all, he confines himself closely to the subject, which he always understands, and enlightens everyone within hearing ; having said all that a statesman should say, he is done.
Cheek argues that Calhoun is best understood as a representative of the South Atlantic tradition of agrarian republicanism.
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.
Calhoun explicitly rejected the founding principles of equality in the Declaration of Independence, denying that humanity is born free and equal in shared human nature and basic needs.
Calhoun considered the concurrent majority essential to provide structural restraints to counter his belief that “ a vast majority of mankind is entirely biased by motives of self-interest and that by this interest must be governed .” This innate selfishness, which he viewed as axiomatic, would inevitably emerge when government revenue became available to political parties for distribution as patronage.
What Calhoun fails to explain, according to historian William W. Freehling, is how a compromise would be achieved in the aftermath of a minority veto, when the ubiquitous demagogues betray their constituencies and abandon the concurrent majority altogether.
is: John C. Calhoun
The School ’ s current Director is Professor Craig Calhoun.
For the last 20 miles ( 32 km ) of its course, the Illinois is separated from the Mississippi River by only about five miles, by a peninsula of land that makes up Calhoun County.
Calhoun County is a county located in the U. S. state of Florida.
As is universal in the Florida Panhandle, a majority of Calhoun County's residents remain much more attached to Southern culture and lifestyle habits than is common in the Central and Southern regions of the state influenced by large amounts of migration, and the area holds much more in common with states such as Alabama, Georgia, or Mississippi than with much of Florida.
Calhoun County is a county in the U. S. state of Alabama.
Its name is in honor of John C. Calhoun, famous member of the United States Senate from South Carolina.
Calhoun County is the name of several counties in the United States of America, mostly named after Senator John C. Calhoun:
* Piedmont ( part-part of Piedmont is in Calhoun County )
* Glencoe ( part of Glencoe is in Calhoun County )
* Ohatchee ( part of Ohatchee is in Calhoun County )
* Oxford ( part of Oxford is in Calhoun County )

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The mismanagement of the Army during the war distressed Calhoun, and he resolved to strengthen the War Department so it would never fail again.
The mechanisms for his system are convincing if one shares Calhoun ’ s conviction that a functioning concurrent majority never leads to stalemate in the legislature ; rather, talented statesmen, practiced in the arts of conciliation and compromise would pursue “ the common good ”, however explosive the issue.
Calhoun ’ s two key concepts – the maintenance of the concurrent majority by high-minded statesmen on the one hand ; and the inevitable rise of demagogues who undermine consensus on the other – are never reconciled or resolved in the Disquisition.
The Calhoun doctrine said Congress could never outlaw slavery in the territories.
During the Civil War, the Confederate government honored Calhoun on a one-cent postage stamp, which was printed in 1862 but was never officially released.
After the Ku Klux Klan activities discussed here, however, the headquarters was moved, and the town never achieved the dominant position in Calhoun County, with Anniston, founded the next year, achieving that status instead.
* The 1964 pilot, Calhoun: County Agent, starring Jackie Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, was filmed in and around Las Cruces, but never aired.
Fortunately, he never had to ; instead, a compromise tariff was proposed by Henry Clay — one which John C. Calhoun and other South Carolinians eventually accepted.
Granger had become close friends with production supervisor Robert Calhoun, and although both had felt a mutual attraction, they never had discussed it.
Like all other residential colleges at their inception, Calhoun had twenty-four hour guard service and the gates were never locked.
Calhoun never had significant involvement in Yale after his student years and was never a benefactor, though at the time the college was named, the prevailing view of Calhoun was that of an exceptional statesman and principled Senator.
In fact, never was Calhoun ’ s “ athleticism ” more evident than when he was matched up against fellow wrestling giant Happy Humphrey ( real name: William Cobb ) in a series of highly-anticipated altercations during the early 1960s.
) After engaging in a memorable feud against legendary rulebreaker Dick the Bruiser, Calhoun then generally traveled from territory to territory, never staying in one region for too long so as to maintain his status as a celebrated babyface enforcer.
Despite never really challenging for the World Title, Haystacks Calhoun nonetheless excelled in the tag team division ; and in 1966 he won both the Tri-States U. S. Tag Team Titles and the NWA Canadian Tag Team Titles while teaming with Jack Brisco and Don Leo Jonathan, respectively.
Because of how the Battle of Atlanta unfolded, these fortifications were never really put to the test, the City's Mayor Calhoun capitulating to the siege after the railways to Macon were seized by Union forces and an untimely " accident " ignited and blew up the primary Ammo dump within the City, leaving them practically defenseless.
Calhoun was known as " The Adonis of the Seventh " due to his handsome features, but he was never a womanizer as he married Margaret in 1872.

Calhoun and seen
A wide range of places, streets and schools were named after Calhoun, as may be seen on the above list.
Gordon is also seen three times by Barney Calhoun during the course of Half-Life: Blue Shift.

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