Union And Liberty: The Political Philosphy of John C. Calhoun

Calhoun's most important constitutional and political writings are now available as complete, unabridged texts and in a single volume, many for the first time since the 1850s. These writings address such issues as states' rights and nullification, slavery, the growth of the Federal judicial power, and Calhoun's doctrine of the "concurrent majority."

This selection presents twelve notable speeches, letters, and essays by Calhoun; among them are his famous Fort Hill Address and his two great treatises on government—"A Disquisition on Government" and the "Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States."

Ross M. Lence is Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston.

• Anti-Slavery Political Writings, 1833-1860
• Social Theories of Jacksonian Democracy: Representative Writings of the Period 1825-1850 (American Heritage Series)
• The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It (Library of America #212)
• The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860 (Library of Southern Civilization)
• Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858 (Library of America)
• Lincoln : Speeches and Writings : 1859-1865 (Library of America)
• The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates (Signet Classics)
• The Federalist
• Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
• The Marx-Engels Reader (Second Edition)