| Type of Document |
Master's Thesis |
| Author |
Feeney, Joseph Leland
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| Author's Email Address |
jfeene1@lsu.edu |
| URN |
etd-1112103-210714 |
| Title |
Continunity and Revolution: The Basis of the American Revolution in the Common Law and the Ancient Constitution, as Explicated by John Dickinson |
| Degree |
Master of Arts (M.A.) |
| Department |
Political Science |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| G. Ellis Sandoz |
Committee Chair |
| James Stoner |
Committee Member |
| William A. Clark |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
- political thought
- common law revolution
- the farmer
- ancient constitution
- john dickinson
- american revolution
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| Date of Defense |
2003-11-04 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
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.
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