History of the United States I / Unit 12 USH1 1707 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Calhoun's Concurrent Majority
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The idea
Calhoun became slavery's leading political theorist, seeing the South as an increasingly embattled minority, and advanced the concurrent majority.
In practice
A regional majority, though a national minority, holding a veto over legislation hostile to it.
Where people slip
His eighteen fifty Disquisition on Government held that where government turns hostile, concurrent majorities may form new governments. The anchor calls the argument profoundly anti-democratic.
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