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 ...

History has dubbed Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and John Calhoun “the great triumvirate ... would use the Constitution as his best defense of state nullification. Calhoun attended Yale where ...

On this day in 1832, Vice President John C. Calhoun ... against [Henry] Clay and [Daniel] Webster and, nullification out of the question, Mr. Calhoun’s place should be in front with these ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...