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U.S. vice president and South Carolina senator, Calhoun formulated the doctrines of nullification and the concurrent majority and defended slavery as a positive good, inspiring Southern secession.
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Political tradition of the nineteenth-century American South tied to the Confederacy, defending states' rights and secession, an agrarian, patriarchal and Christian society, free trade and a military tradition. Historically, this tradition also defended slavery and racial hierarchy.
Current that rejects modern democracy and egalitarianism and proposes replacing them with hierarchical, efficient governments run like companies by a sovereign, combining traditionalism and technology.
American conservative current associated with Ronald Reagan. It combines lower taxes and a smaller federal economic role with free enterprise, traditional religious values, anticommunism and military strength.
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U.S. senator and secretary of war, Davis presided over the Confederate States during the Civil War, defending secession, states' rights and slavery as the basis of the South's social and economic order.
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Formed by the secession of eleven Southern states to preserve slavery, the Confederate States combined radical state confederalism, a traditionalist and religious agrarian society, and free trade, before being defeated in the Civil War.
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