H. Lee Cheek

„The vindication of Calhoun’s critique can be witnessed in the effects of the centralization of political power in America and throughout the world during the century and a half since his death, which has in most cases either limited or repealed long-standing modes of deliberation and popular rule. For Calhoun, it was ‘indispensable that the government of the United States should be restored to its federal character’ in theory and in practice” (page 154).