Calhoun’s concurrent majority was designed to protect slaveholders from majority will

Evidence

The problem, in Calhoun’s eyes, was that the will of the majority, as expressed in the House of Representatives and the election of the president, had too much power. It had to be curbed, lest it overrun this “true and perfect voice of the people.” And those “people” whose voices must be heard, of course, were those like him. Those with power. Those with property. Those who enslaved others. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 639

Categorization

• XREF: The reader’s ‘who is design vs deviation’ question: Calhoun recasts majority rule as the deviation from the founding design, and slavery protection as the design.