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February 6, 1837 Speech on Abolition Petitions by Sen. John C. Calhoun

Andrew Langer, Daily Essay 2013 2. The Constitution, 3. The Amendments, 4. The Classics that Inspired the Constitution, 13. Guest Constitutional Scholar Essayists, Andrew Langer, Constitutional Amendment I, Constitutional Amendment I, Speech on Reception of Abolition Petitions by Sen. John C. Calhoun

Guest Essayist: Andrew Langer, President, Institute for Liberty

In his historical play, Henry V, Shakespeare talks about casting our glance back through history, and compressing the events of many years “into an hourglass.” In the 21^st Century, it is easy to think of the debates on the abolition of slavery as having taken place with the relative-rapidity of the passage of Obamacare, but in reality this debate happened over the course of nearly an entire century of the nation’s founding years. Read more

April 18, 2013/0 Comments/by Janine Turner and Cathy Gillespie

Speech on Reception of Abolition Petitions by John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) – Reprinted from The U.S. Constitution, A Reader, Published by Hillsdale College

Classics that Inspired the Constitution, Daily Reading 2013, Speech on Reception of Abolition Petitions by John C. Calhoun, The Original Documents 4. The Classics that Inspired the Constitution, Speech on Reception of Abolition Petitions by Sen. John C. Calhoun

The number of slaves in America had grown from 700,000 in 1790 to over two million in 1830. Northern opposition to slavery was growing in the 1820s and 1830s, as it became clear that hopes for a withering away of slavery were unrealistic. This elicited a similarly strong response Read more

April 18, 2013/0 Comments/by Janine Turner and Cathy Gillespie

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