The Papers of John C. Calhoun
Subtitle: A Disquisition on Government and a Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States (Papers of John C Calhoun)
Contributors: Clyde N. Wilson (Editor); Shirley B. Cook (Editor)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781570035029
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Other prose: 19th century; Other prose: from c 1900 -; Political ideologies; South Carolina; Literary Collections; Biography; Statesmen; Politics / Current Events; Politics and government; History & Theory - General; Literature: Classics; United States; USA; Constitutions; Government - U.S. Government; Essays; Sources; 1775-1865; 1815-1861
First sentence: IN order to have a clear and just conception of the nature and object of government, it is indispensable to understand correctly what that constitution or law of our nature is, in which government originates; or, to express it more fully and accurately,-that law, without which government would not, and with which, it must necessarily exist.