Miles Smith IV reviews Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder at The University Bookman.
"While defenses of slavery and the fear of untrammeled democracy seem horrifyingly anachronistic to modern readers, they allowed Calhoun to see the liberal revolutions in Europe during 1848 more clearly than other American commentators of the era. Calhoun feared liberal democracy. He believed that liberalism must inevitably destabilize the regimes of Europe and urged his senate colleagues to be more judicious in their praise for liberal nationalist movements in the middle of the nineteenth century."
See Calhoun, "The Concurrent Majority" from A Disquisition on Goverment, in Gateway to the Great Books (10 Vol., 1963) volume 7
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