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Quaker constitutionalism and the political thought of John Dickinson / Jane E. Calvert

Author
Calvert, Jane E., 1970-
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
xiv, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
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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ISBN
9780521884365 (hbk.)
0521884365 (hbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-363) and index.
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