Quaker constitutionalism and the political thought of John Dickinson /
by Calvert, Jane E.,
Published by : Cambridge University Press, (Cambridge ; New York :) Physical details: one online resource, 398 pages : illustrations ; ISBN: 9780521884365; 0521884365.Item type | Location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Quaker constitutionalism in theory and practice, c.1652-1763 -- Bureaucratic libertines : the origins of Quaker constitutionalism and civil dissent -- A sacred institution : the Quaker theory of a civil constitution -- "Dissenters in our own country" : constituting a Quaker government in Pennsylvania -- Civil unity and the "seeds of dissention" in the golden age of Quaker theocracy -- The fruits of Quaker dissent : political schism and the rise of John Dickinson -- The political Quakerism of John Dickinson, 1763-1789 -- Turbulent but pacific : "Dickinsonian politics" in the American Revolution -- "The worthy against the licentious" : the critical period in Pennsylvania -- "The political rock of our salvation" : the U.S. Constitution according to John Dickinson -- Epilogue: The persistence of Quaker constitutionalism, 1789-1963.
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