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The only student edition of Calhoun's writings available, this
volume offers the Disquisition in its entirety along with two key
selections from the Discourse: Formation of the Federal Period and
A Plural Executive Proposed.
The Latin American Monographs Series, Number 23, March, 1963.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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Now, as in his own time, Calhoun's voice resonates to fundamental
concerns of American democratic polity: the nature of man, the
obligations of government, and -- most keenly -- how best to
safeguard the interest of a minority against the will of democratic
majorities. His doctrine of concurrent majority and a minority veto
-- although employed to defend the South's commitment to slavery in
pre-bellum 19th Century America -- strikes an enduring question of
how a diverse, and sometimes divided, society can maintain its
integrity while honouring the interests of all its citizens.
In 1713, soon after publication of the Spectator had come to an
end, its place on breakfast tables of Queen Anne's London was taken
by the Guardian. Richard Steele, continuing in the new paper the
blend of learning, wit, and moral instruction that had proved so
attractive in the Tatler and Spectator, was the editor and
principal writer; in the 175 numbers of the Guardian he included 53
essays by Joseph Addison, as well as contributions by Alexander
Pope, George Berkeley, and several others, some of whom doubtless
transmitted their papers through the famous lion's head letterbox
that Addison had erected in Button's coffeehouse. "These papers,"
as John C. Stephens writes in the introduction to his edition of
the Guardian, "helped to form and to shape the morals and manners
of countless generations in Britain and abroad." This first modern
edition of the Guardian was prepared from the original printing of
the papers, is fully annotated and indexed, and includes a
comprehensive introduction discussing especially the authorship of
the individual essays.
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