Note the emerging pattern, which we will see again: while criticizing government action that threatened his own liberty as a property owner, Calhoun saw nothing untoward in calling on the federal government to use its police powers to help his class stifle debate about its practices. That sleight of hand – denying the legitimacy of government power to act for the common good while using government power to suppress others – appears repeatedly in the pages that follow.
-Nancy MacLean
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