Pete Reads John C. Calhoun's 'Disquisition on Government' Part 1
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Peter R Quiñones
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🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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In this reading and commentary Pete starts on John C. Calhoun's celebrated "Disquisition on Government." John Caldwell Calhoun was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832.
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| 0:00.0 | I want to welcome everyone back to my second book reading. I chose this one because this is one of the first books I would read when I was |
| 0:11.0 | questioning Libertarianism. I knew that Mary Rothbard had quoted it all the time and he always |
| 0:17.5 | talked about John C. Calhoun and I had heard about this book and so I read it and it raised a lot of questions let's just |
| 0:27.1 | put it that way one of the reasons I pick this one and not someone else is he |
| 0:32.3 | is an American, |
| 0:34.1 | southerner, and a controversial figure. |
| 0:40.0 | Let's just put it that way, |
| 0:41.0 | but just to give you some background on John C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. So as a featured biography. |
| 0:53.0 | John C. Calhoun of South Carolina first entered politics in 1808 when he was elected to the state legislature. |
| 1:00.0 | He moved to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1811, where he served almost four terms before resigning to become Secretary of War under President James Monroe, a position he held from 1817 to 1825. |
| 1:13.7 | In both positions, Calhoun was known for his strong support for federally funded |
| 1:18.8 | internal improvements. |
| 1:20.6 | Calhoun was an early candidate for president in 1824 but dropped out and sought the vice presidency instead. |
| 1:27.0 | Although he publicly backed Tennessee's Andrew Jackson for president, his vice presidential candidacy received endorsements from both Jackson supporters and those of John Quincy Adams. |
| 1:42.0 | Calhoun easily won the vice presidency, making him the vice president of the |
| 1:47.1 | Senate while the presidential election was decided by the House of Representatives, which |
| 1:51.5 | elected John Quincy Adams over popular vote winner Andrew Jackson. |
| 1:56.3 | When Jackson was elected president in 1828, Calhoun was again elected vice president, |
| 2:01.5 | but his growing opposition to Jackson's policies again elected |
| 2:04.4 | to the Senate, but his growing opposition to Jackson's policies prompted him, prompted his resignation. |
| 2:07.6 | Elected to the Senate in December of 1832, Calhoun became an influential leader of the Southern states during the Antibellum period, a period in Senate history marked by heated debates over slavery and territorial expansion. |
| 2:21.0 | A stodged defender of the institution of slavery and a slave owner himself, |
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