I want to welcome everyone back to part four of my reading of John C. Calhoun's

a disposition on government. Should be able to knock this out in two more, this one and one more.

And there was a question from the last episode on what

exactly does Calhoun mean by a concurrent government and you will see when I made some notes on it to give a basically a brief

analysis of what he sees as would be able to prevent the majority quote-unquote

democratic from subjugating the minority so So, you know, what basically does he mean by concurrent?

So he's looking at,

it consists of voices of conflicting interests, which are given veto powers against each other in a way that basically qualitative and quantitative features exist.

So any government action can only be taken with widespread consent

across basically all the sectors in the strata of government.

So he basically said that an organism can more fully collect the sense of the community and therefore aid and perfect the right of suffrage.

So you can see how really this would almost have to be brought down to the local level unless you are well what are you going to have?

lobbies things like that one of the reasons I I think I've said this before wanted to read this is because it talks about our government.

It talks about the system of government that we probably recognize the most, but it also, he does a great job in sections of showing why it doesn't work.

So, yeah, and the concurrent majority is one of those things that once you understand that you're like, yeah, well, how would you even, how would that even work now?

You don't even have, there's not even a foundation of subjective truth or I mean of objective truth and or morality.

I mean, we're basically at war because of that.

So yeah, no, it's not gonna work, but I still think finishing this

and reading it in the first place helps because in my opinion he was the greatest political thinker probably when it comes to political theory the greatest American political thinker.

So yeah, all right, I'm going to continue reading.

I think we're at page 69,

and I'm going to pick up where I left off.

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