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U.S. vice president and South Carolina senator, Calhoun formulated the doctrines of nullification and the concurrent majority and defended slavery as a positive good, inspiring Southern secession.
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John C. Calhoun leans further toward federal than 95% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
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Ideology of the slaveholding South that sustained the Confederacy, joining states' rights and secession, racial hierarchy and slavery, a patriarchal Christian agrarian society, free trade and militarism.
American conservative current associated with Ronald Reagan. It combines lower taxes and a smaller federal economic role with free enterprise, traditional religious values, anticommunism and military strength.
Tradition of republics made of sovereign provinces or cantons, such as the Dutch Republic and the old Swiss Confederacy, with local self-government, open trade, armed neutrality and deep-rooted Protestant faith.
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U.S. senator and secretary of war, Davis presided over the Confederate States during the Civil War, defending secession, states' rights and slavery as the basis of the South's social and economic order.
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The second-largest US state, Texas stands out for its conservatism, its culture of strong individual freedom, low taxation, and a dynamic market economy tied to energy and industry.
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Formed by the secession of eleven Southern states to preserve slavery, the Confederate States combined radical state confederalism, a traditionalist and religious agrarian society, and free trade, before being defeated in the Civil War.
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