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Quotation from A Disquisition on Government by John C. Calhoun
“takes the sense of each, through its majority or appropriate organ, and the united sense of all, as the sense of the entire community.”
A Disquisition on Government, Section on the two kinds of majority (The Works of John C. Calhoun, vol. 1 (1851), Internet Archive OCR text)
Calhoun's definition of the concurrent majority, which he contrasts with the simple count of the numerical majority.
Citation: "takes the sense of each, through its majority or appropriate organ, and the united sense of all, as the sense of the entire community." — John C. Calhoun, A Disquisition on Government, Section on the two kinds of majority (The Works of John C. Calhoun, vol. 1 (1851), Internet Archive OCR text). (id calhoun-disquisition-on-government-q2)
Portrait: John C. Calhoun, Rembrandt Peale, Public domain.
