A vice pres. first resigned on #ThisDayInHistory in 1832, when #JohnCCalhoun quit to take a seat in the Senate and defend #slavery; viz., "there never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not... live on the labor of the other".

The Webster-Hayne debate was a series of back-and-forth speeches between Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Senator Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina in January 1830. #History #AmericanCivilWar #AndrewJackson #DanielWebster #JohnCCalhoun #RobertYHayne #StatesRights #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24196-en/

A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is stable. It is a rock.... #JohnCCalhoun #citation https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-c-calhoun-quotes/#2856f851

The white supremacist orgins of "public choice theory," the bedrock of contemporary libertarian thought https://boingboing.net/2017/12/10/freedom-is-slavery.html #let'seuthanizesomerentiers #JamesMBuchanan #neoliberalism #johnccalhoun #politics #Post #race