Continuity and revolution: the basis of the American Revolution in the Common Law and the Ancient Constitution, as explicated by John Dickinson

Identifier

etd-1112103-210714

Author

Joseph Leland Feeney, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical CollegeFollow

Degree

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Political Science

Document Type

Thesis

Abstract

How revolutionary was the American Revolutionary War? My thesis is that, for a broad cross section of Americans, the political scientific rationale of the American Revolutionary era was based on the Common Law and the Ancient Constitution. In this paper I have investigated the life and writings of John Dickinson so as to provide a standpoint from which the continuity of the Ancient Constitutional and Common Law ethos can be seen as a subtext of the American "Revolutionary" War.

Date

2003

Document Availability at the Time of Submission

Release the entire work immediately for access worldwide.

Recommended Citation

Feeney, Joseph Leland, "Continuity and revolution: the basis of the American Revolution in the Common Law and the Ancient Constitution, as explicated by John Dickinson" (2003). LSU Master's Theses. 3927.
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/3927

Committee Chair

G. Ellis Sandoz

DOI

10.31390/gradschool_theses.3927