Calhoun and Popular Rule
Subtitle: The Political Theory of the Disquisition and Discourse
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780826213334
Subjects: Political science & theory; Western philosophy, c 1800 to c 1900; Politics and government; Philosophy; Disquisition on government; U.S. History - Constitutional Period To Civil War (1789-1860); United States; U.S. Senate; Political science; History; Politics / Current Events; History: American; USA; Government - Legislative Branch; History & Theory - General; Political; United States - 19th Century; 1782-1850.; Politics - Current Events; (John Caldwell),; 1782-1850; 19th century; Calhoun, John C; Calhoun, John C.
First sentence: In her 1990 presidential address to the American Political Science Association, the late Judith Shklar urged the redemption of American political theory from its "petty intellectual squabbles" and "ideological combat" of recent decades, while encouraging a rekindled emphasis on the imaginative study of the American tradition of theorizing about political life.
Description: "Although John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) remains one of the major figures in American political thought, many of his critics have tried to discredit him as merely a Southern partisan whose ideas were obsolete even during his lifetime. In Calhoun and Popular Rule, H.

Lee Cheek, Jr., attempts to correct such misconceptions by presenting Calhoun as an original political thinker who devoted his life to the recovery of a "proper mode of popular rule." He argues that Calhoun had a coherent, systematic view of human nature and society and made a lasting contribution to the theory of constitutionalism and democracy."--BOOK JACKET.