American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina who served in many important positions including as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. He is remembered for strongly defending slavery and for advancing the concept of minority states' rights in politics. He did this in the context of protecting the interests of the white South when its residents were outnumbered by Northerners. He began his political career as a nationalist, modernizer, and proponent of a strong national government and protective tariffs. In the late 1820s, his views changed radically, and he became a leading proponent of states' rights, limited government, nullification, and opposition to high tariffs. He saw Northern acceptance of those policies as a condition of the South remaining in the Union. His beliefs and warnings heavily influenced the South's secession from the Union in 1860–1861.
Among the other advantages which governments of the concurrent majority have over those of the numerical majority is a much greater extensio...
Among the other advantages which governments of the concurrent majority have over those of the numerical majority is a much greater extension of the right of suffrage to every male citizen of mature age, with few ordinary exceptions ; but it cannot be so far extended in those of the numerical majority, without placing them ultimately under the control of the more ignorant and dependent portions of the community.
The numerical majority system will divide the people. Devotion to party becomes stronger than devotion to country. The promotion of the inte...
The numerical majority system will divide the people. Devotion to party becomes stronger than devotion to country. The promotion of the interests of party more important than the promotion of the common good of the whole, and its triumph and ascendency, objects of far greater solicitude, than the safety and prosperity of the community.
For the purpose to restore the government of the United States to its federal character, the first and indispensable step is to repeal the 2...
For the purpose to restore the government of the United States to its federal character, the first and indispensable step is to repeal the 25th sect, of the judiciary act,—the whole of the act of the 3d of March, 1833, and all other acts containing like provisions. These, by subjecting the judiciary of the States to the control of the federal judiciary, have subjected the separate governments of the several States, including all their departments and functionaries,—and, thereby, the States themselves, to a subordinate and dependent condition. It is only by their repeal, that the former can be raised to their true relation as coequals and co-ordinates.
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1851
