John C. Calhoun: “On the Relation Which the States and General Government Bear to Each Other”

Glossary

• adduced brought forward for the purpose of making an argument
• admit of permit or allow for
• mode and measure type and degree
• a natural and not a conventional right a right given by nature, not by law
• parties viewpoints
• political revolution of 1801 the assumption of power in 1801 by Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic-Republican Party, marking a sharp break from the Federalist administration of John Adams
• Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions policy statements, authored by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1798, that affirmed states’ rights against central government power