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An 8 page research paper that examines the political theories of John C. Calhoun, the state Senator from South Carolina, who helped to structure the Compromise of 1850 and believed in the concurrent majority theory, which he supported it as a means to preserve the Union. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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philosophy of John C. Calhoun (1782-1850), like that of Aristotle, James Madison, and Karl Marx, was based on class analysis (Safford 211).
The noted American historian, Richard Hofstadter, went so far as to subtitle a chapter on Calhoun "the Marx of the Master Class" (Safford 211). In his book Hofstadler explains
that in Calhouns philosophy there is? discernible a rough parallel to several ideas that were later elaborated and refined by Marx: the idea of pervasive exploitation and class struggle
in history; a labor theory of value and of a surplus appropriated by the capitalists; the concentration of capital under capitalistic production; the fall of the working-class conditions to the
level of subsistence, the growing revolt of the laboring class against the capitalists; the prediction of social revolution (Safford 211). The main difference, again according to Hofstadter,
is that Calhoun proposed that the revolution that should result from these conditions should not take place (Safford 211). For Calhoun, a South Carolinian who was concerned in protecting
the economic welfare of his state by protecting the institution of slavery, it was a minority of privileges "rather than rights" that he proposed to protect (Safford 211). Calhoun proposed
giving to the minority not merely a proportionate voice, but an equal voice with that of the majority (Safford 211). Calhouns "concurrent majority" Calhouns theory of the "concurrent
majority" is similar to the historic "Polish constitution" in which any group represented had the right to a potential veto on legislation (Safford 211). This has principally been applied to
the process of decision making that occurs with a petit jury, which is charged to reach its decision by unanimous agreement (Safford 211). A contemporary example of Calhouns theory in
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