The conflict between power and liberty in a free government was the passionate concern of this most articulate, and often prophetic, orator and writer.

The first portion of Calhoun's service as U.S. Secretary of State.

John C. Calhoun (1782–1850) was one of the prominent figure of American politics in the first half of the nineteenth century. The son of a slaveholding South

John C. Calhoun's ghost still haunts America today. First elected to congress in 1810, Calhoun served as secretary of war during the war of 1812, and then as vi

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