JOHN DICKINSON - Penman of the American Revolution and Lesser-Known Founder

JOHN DICKINSON - Penman of the American Revolution and Lesser-Known Founder

On Traveling Through History, we take a look at one of the most influential Founders in our country's history in the lead up to and after the American Revolution, John Dickinson, the "Penman" of the Revolution.  Dickinson is one of the lesser-known Founders, largely because he cautioned against war against England (due to his Quaker beliefs) and wanted to find a conciliatory way to address the colonies' grievances.  Once Revolution was declared, however, Dickinson was on board and joined the Continental Army as an officer.

John Dickinson became the "voice" of the colonists and their grievances in the lead up to the Revolutionary War through his many writings on topics which addressed the rights that they felt they had been denied under the British system.  His Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies (1768) set out the colonial argument for opposing British taxation more clearly and persuasively than any previous work.

A staunch advocate of the British constitution, he forcefully opposed independence in July 1776 as a member of the Continental Congress, but nevertheless chose to fight in the Continental Army.  Dickinson was also a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and argued unsuccessfully for the supremacy of the national legislature over the other branches of government, yet he urged ratification of the final document.  In the Letters, he impressively laid out the case that Parliament could legislate for the colonies, which included the regulation of trade, but had no constitutional authority to tax them to raise a revenue.  Moreover, he argued that any such unconstitutional measures - like the Townshend Duties - would be most effectively opposed by not importing or purchasing British goods; violence was unacceptable and, more to the point, fruitless as a means of obtaining redress.

We review several short videos including a debate between John Dickinson and John Adams in the great TV mini-series "John Adams" where Dickinson forcefully explains why he proposes one last "Olive Branch Petition" before the colonies go head-long into a war with the world's most powerful British Army.

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