Word: calhounian
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...Democratic leader last week predicted that 1) no Democrat will enter the convention with 300 votes (Russell may have the most), and 2) the nomination will not go to the man with the biggest initial bloc, but to the one with the fewest enemies-a perfect expression of the Calhounian principle...
...Republicans nominate Eisenhower, who looks remarkably unlike Thaddeus Stevens, observers expect that he will get more Southern votes than any Republican in history. That could lead to the extension of the two-party system to the South. With it could come a re-establishment of the delicate operations of Calhounian compromise which do not require the clumsy open threats of bolts by party leaders...
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