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See also:DICKINSON, See also:JOHN (1732–1808) , See also:American statesman and pamphleteer, was See also:born in See also:Talbot See also:county, See also:Maryland, on the 8th of See also:November 1732. He removed with his See also:father to See also:Kent county, See also:Delaware, in 1740, studied under private tutors, read See also:law, and in 1753 entered the See also:Middle See also:Temple, See also:London. Returning to See also:America in 1757, he began the practice of law in See also:Philadelphia, was See also:speaker of the Delaware See also:assembly in 176o, and was a member of the See also:Pennsylvania assembly in 1762–1765 and again in 1770-1776.1 He represented Pennsylvania in the See also:Stamp See also:Act See also:Congress (1765) and in the See also:Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776, when he was defeated owing to his opposition to the See also:Declaration of See also:Independence. He then retired to Delaware, served for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time as private and later as brigader-See also:general in the See also:state See also:militia, and was again a member of the Continental Congress (from Delaware) in 1779-1780. He was See also:president of the executive See also:council, or See also:chief executive officer, of Delaware in 1781-1782, and of Pennsylvania in 1782-1785, and was a delegate from Delaware to the See also:Annapolis See also:convention of 1786 and the Federal Constitutional convention of 1787. Dickinson has aptly been called the "Penman of the Revolution." No other writer of the See also:day presented arguments so numerous, so timely and so popular. He drafted the " Declaration of Rights " of the Stamp Act Congress, the " See also:Petition to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King " and the " Address to the Inhabitants of See also:Quebec " of the Congress of 1774, and the second " Petition to the King "2 and the " Articles of See also:Confederation " of the second Congress. Most influential of all, however, were The Letters of a See also:Farmer in Pennsylvania, written in 1767–1768 in condemnation of the See also:Townshend Acts of 1767, in which he rejected speculative natural rights theories and appealed to the See also:common sense of the See also:people through See also:simple legal arguments. By opposing the Declaration of Independence, he lost his popularity and was never able entirely to regain it. As the representative of a small state, he championed the principle of state equality in the constitutional convention, but was one of the first to See also:advocate the See also:compromise, which was finally adopted, providing for equal See also:representation, in one See also:house and proportional representation in the other. He was probably influenced by Delaware See also:prejudice against Pennsylvania when he drafted the clause which forbids the creation of a new state by the junction of two or more states or parts of states without the consent of the states concerned as well as of congress. After the See also:adjournment of the convention he defended its See also:work in a See also:series of letters signed " See also:Fabius," which will See also:bear comparison with the best of the Federalist productions. It was largely through his See also:influence that Delaware and Pennsylvania were the first two states to ratify the Constitution. Dickinson's interests were not exclusively See also:political. He helped to found Dickinson See also:College (named in his See also:honour) at See also:Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1783, was the first president of its See also:board of
1 Being under the same proprietor and the same See also:governor, Pennsylvania and Delaware were so closely connected before the Revolution that there was an interchange of public men.
' The " Declaration of the See also:United Colonies of See also:North America . . setting forth the Causes and the See also:Necessity of their Taking up Arms (often erroneously attributed to See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Jefferson).-See also:DICKSON, J. R.
trustees, and was for many years its chief benefactor. He died on the 14th of See also:February 18o8 and was buried in the See also:Friends' See also:burial ground in See also:Wilmington, Del.
See C. J. Stille, See also:Life and Times of John Dickinson, and P. L. See also:Ford (editor), The Writings of John Dickinson, in vols. xiii. and xiv. respectively of the See also:Memoirs of the See also:Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1891 and 1895).
End of Article: DICKINSON, JOHN (1732–1808)
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