John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850), the South Carolina senator who was slavery’s most vociferous defender (he called it a “positive good”) and whose espousal of state “nullification” of ...

An even greater rival of John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster called ... including a myriad of concerns from nullification to slavery, Calhoun should be understood as a source of moderation amid ...

Were he alive today, former vice president John C. Calhoun would be green with envy of President Obama and Mr. Holder's practice of nullification by prioritization. See a law that you don't want ...

That year, South Carolina’s John C. Calhoun anonymously penned two articles that are called the “South Carolina Exposition and Protest.” These laid out the claim that nullification ...

When I toured the South Carolina Governor’s Mansion in 2019, I noticed the multivolume papers of John C. Calhoun on display ... As a political theorist, Calhoun is best known for two ideas: ...

One year after the John C. Calhoun monument in Marion Square was ... He was a proponent of nullification of unwanted federal tariff legislation. His advocacy of states' rights set the stage ...

"This statue to John C. Calhoun (1782 - 1850 ... Calhoun championed state's rights and nullification, the right of an individual state to disobey/ignore a Federal law with which it did not ...

From 230 years of graduates, Yale selected only two: Jonathan Edwards and John C ... of nullification, states’ rights, and slavery? Yale offered no justification for honoring Calhoun.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Charleston City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday night to adopt a resolution authorizing the removal of the statue and monument to John C. Calhoun, a 19th century ...