[From "Can John C. Calhoun Save America?"]

Rothbard called John C. Calhoun’s Disquisition on Government “one of the most brilliant essays on political philosophy ever written”[…]
Calhoun’s 173-year-old treatise is not just a diagnosis of how we got here, but a roadmap for escaping from this tyranny and being rid of the “woke” totalitarian Marxists among us who are so hell-bent on destroying America[…]
Calhoun was a brilliant expositor of the natural-rights philosophy that rights to life, liberty, and property are God-given; that the primary purpose of government is to secure these rights from domestic and foreign enemies of freedom; and the realization that there is always a danger that governments can be perverted in a way that they destroy rather than protect these God-given rights"[…]
“Consent” was given to ratify the Constitution by the separate political communities of the sovereign states, and they reserved the right to withdraw that consent should the government that they created as their agent interfere with their “happiness”[…]
The party in power[…]will be opposed to the constitutional restrictions intended to limit it[…]
The “minor, or weaker party”[…]will make its strict construction arguments for actually enforcing the Constitution[…]
The “end of the contest” would then be “the subversion of the constitution”

This will occur[…]because of a kind of class struggle in society, but not the Marxist class struggle between the capitalist and working “classes.” Instead, in a democracy, “Some one portion of the community must pay in taxes more than it receives back in disbursements; while another receives in disbursements more than it pays in taxes”[…]
The right of suffrage causes this condition, and can in no way counteract it[…]
Hans-Hermann Hoppe described democracy as “a soft variant of communism”[…]
Calhoun was always a unionist, and viewed nullification of laws thought to be unconstitutional as an alternative to secession