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Analysis of a The Disquisition of Government by John Calhoun

le must act in accordance of the rules. He also adds the concept of security. Calhoun asserts, there must ever be allotted, under all circumstances, a sphere sufficiently large to protect the community against danger from without and violence and anarchy within. The residuum belongs to liberty. More cannot be safely or rightly allotted to it (280). More important, this argument is what many argued in the defense of slavery. Calhoun in the prior statement spoke like a leader of the slaveholding South that remained fearful of slave revolt. But the larger point should not be missed, that liberty is jeopardized for all when it is withheld from some. Calhoun notes that liberty must have restrictions. He asserts that of all factors, it is moral qualifications which most determine how must liberty is appropriate to (and possible for) a community. He believes that excessive liberty only leads to anarchy the greatest of all curses, and thence probably to something approaching tyranny. No people, indeed, can long enjoy more liberty than that to which their situation and advanced intelligence and morals fairly entitle them (281). Calhoun believes that liberty is a reward to be earned, not a blessing to be given to everyone. He believes it is a reward reserved for the intelligent, the patriotic, the virtuous and deserving. He notes:Liberty . . . though among the greatest of blessings, is not so great as that of protection, in as much as the end of the former is the progress and improvement of the race, while that of the latter is its preservation and perpetuation. And hence, when the two come into conflict, liberty must, and ever ought, to yield to protection, as the existence of the race is of greater moment that its improvement (281).Calhoun believes that being a good citizen; obeying the laws and contributing to a society earn freedom and rights for those in a society. Another assertion that that Calhoun makes is that error is the opinion that ...

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