Quaker Constitutionalism And The Political Thought Of John Dickinson Calvert by Calvert, Jane E., 1970- instant download after payment.

xiv, 382 p. : 24 cm, Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-363) and index, 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