Calhoun argued representation gave the slaveholding South no protection

Evidence

There was one specific portion with whose protection Calhoun was chiefly concerned. “Our geographical position, our industry, pursuits and institutions are all peculiar,” he later wrote, referring to the slavery-dependent South. Against a domineering North, he argued, “representation affords not the slightest protection.” — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 634

Categorization

• XREF: His claim that representation ‘affords not the slightest protection’ to a minority faction is the direct ancestor of later minority-veto theories of government. — connects to: Southern delegates argued enslaved people were property, not taxable free persons. — Edward J. Larson, Declaring Independence, 293