2016 Reprint of 1943 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.  The “Disquisition on Government” is Calhoun's short, definitive and comprehensive statement on the minority rights in U.S. constitutional law.  It systematically presents his arguments that a numerical majority in any government will typically impose a despotism over a minority unless some way is devised to secure the assent of all classes, sections, and interests and, similarly, that innate human depravity would debase government in a...