The Commonplace Book of Christian Clay Columba Campbell
The Most Tyrannical and Oppressive That Can Be Devised
John C. Calhoun.
The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.
— John C. Calhoun in a speech to the U.S. Senate (15 February 1833).
Christian Clay Columba Campbell is a Roman Catholic of the Anglican Use. As Senior Warden of the Cathedral of the Incarnation (Orlando, FL), he organised the process by which the parish accepted the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, petitioning to join the Catholic Church. The Anglican Cathedral is now the Church of the Incarnation in the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.
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Debatably the greatest political thinker produced on this continent.
Debatably the greatest political thinker produced on this continent.
Since you seem to share an interest in history with me, did you read the article about Jefferson in a recent Smithsonian Magazine?
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Little-Known-Dark-Side-of-Thomas-Jefferson-169780996.html