I want to welcome everyone back to the finale of John C. Calhoun's

a disquisition on government.

Let's get this done with so I can move on to my next project,

my next reading

reading I'm sure a lot of you will be interested in

so I'm gonna pick up where we left off and

gonna go to the end

all right going to the end. All right. The governments of the more advanced and civilized portions of the world are now in the midst of this period.

It is proved and will continue to prove a severe trial to existing

political institutions of every form. Those governments which have not the

sagacity to perceive what is truly public opinion to distinguish between it and the mere clamor of faction or shouts of fanaticism and the good sense and firmness to yield timely and cautiously to the claims of the one and to resist promptly and decidedly the demands of the other are doomed to fall.

Few will be able successfully to pass through this period of transition and these, not without shocks and modifications, more or less considerable.

It will endure until the governing and the govern shall better understand the ends for which government is ordained and the form best adapted to accomplish them under all the circumstances in which communities may be respectively placed.

I shall in conclusion proceed to exemplify the elementary principles which have been established

by giving a brief account of the origin and character of the governments of Rome and Great Britain,

the two most remarkable and perfect of their prospective forms of constitutional government.

The object is to show how these principles were applied in the more simple forms of such governments,

preparatory to the, preparatory to an exposition of the mode in which they have been applied in our own more complex system.

It will appear that in each, the principles are the same, and that the difference in their application

resulted from the different situation and social condition of the respective communities.

They were modified in each so as to conform to these and hence their remarkable success.

They were applied to communities in which hereditary rank had long prevailed.

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