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John Calhoun And A Disquisition On Government
1,926 wordsThe Disquisition of Government by John Calhoun was written as a document to primarily defend the ideologies of the South. It was a work of that elaborated on John Calhoun's Political Theory, which mentions the idea of a "concurrent majority", which is that a concurrent majority on an issue is one composed of an agreement of the most important minority interests in a society. He believed that a constitution having a majority behind it would protect people against the numerical majority. Calhoun t...
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John Calhoun And A Disquisition On Government
1,924 words... attractive to the ambitious and avaricious. He also notes that government cannot possibly equalize costs and benefits. Government is in place so society can run and people must always play a role in the maintenance of society, and people must play a role in building it. He notes, "Its honors and emoluments, however great, can fall to the lot of but a few, compared to the entire number of the community and the multitude who will seek to participate in them. " As a result, "one portion of the ...
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Majority Of The People Proportional Representation
840 wordsJohn Stuart Mill on Proportional Representation Two very different ideas are usually confounded under the name democracy. The pure idea of democracy, according to its definition, is the government of the whole people by the whole people, equally represented. Democracy as commonly conceived and hitherto practiced, is the government of the whole people by a mere majority of the people, exclusively represented. The former is synonymous with the equality of all citizens; the latter, strangely confou...
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Liberty And Equality Nature Of Man
1,986 wordsJohn C. Calhoun A Disquisition on Government (1848), selections The Nature of Man and the Origin of Government According to Calhoun, to understand the nature of government, one must also understand the nature of its creator, man. He begins by asking, What is that constitution or law of our nature without which government would not exist and with which its existence is necessary? In answering this question, Calhoun makes two assumptions: First, man is a social being whose physical and moral incli...
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Numerical Majority Federalist Papers
3,849 wordsThe Disquisition of Government by John Calhoun was written as a document to primarily defend the ideologies of the South. It was a work of that elaborated on John Calhoun? s Political Theory, which mentions the idea of a concurrent majority, which is that a concurrent majority on an issue is one composed of an agreement of the most important minority interests in a society. He believed that a constitution having a majority behind it would protect people against the numerical majority. Calhoun tr...
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