Competitive majority system

…After serving in important positions as Secretary of War under J. Monroe (1817-25) and Vice President under J. Q. Adams (1825-29), he was re-elected as Vice President under A. Jackson (1829-32) in 1828, but when the conflict between the North and South surfaced due to the Missouri Compromise and the tariff issue, he eventually resigned and served as a senator, except for his term as Secretary of State under J. Tyler (1844-45). Always in the midst of a fierce debate centered on slavery between the North and South, he tried to position the interests of the South within the survival of the Union, and theorized the ``competitive majority system,'' which seeks to derive agreement from the competing relationships between individual interests. The theory of nullification, which was invoked against the federal government and centered on the theory of state popular sovereignty, was an attempt to make this theory work in a federal state with different regional interests. …

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…J.モンロー治下の陸軍省長官(1817‐25)，J.Q.アダムズ治下の副大統領(1825‐29)の要職にあった後，28年，A.ジャクソンの副大統領(1829‐32)に再選されたが，〈ミズーリ協定〉や関税問題を契機に表面化した南北の対立が顕在化すると，やがて辞任し，J.タイラー治下の国務長官(1844‐45)にあった期を除く前後を上院議員として送る。南北の奴隷制を軸とした激しい論争の渦中に常にあり，南部の利益を連邦の存続の中で位置づけることに努め，個別利益間の競合関係の中から合意を導出しようとする〈競合的多数制〉を理論化する。この理論を地域的利害を異にする連邦国家において機能させようとしたのが，州人民主権論を軸として，連邦政府に対して発動された無効宣言の理論である。…

※「競合的多数制」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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