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Lawyer and signer of the Constitution from Delaware (1732–1808) who also served as an officer during the Revolutionary War, governor of Delaware, and governor of Pennsylvania, nicknamed the 'Penman of the Revolution.' An important Revolutionary tract: An Essay on the Constitutional Power of Great-Britain over the Colonies in America; with the Resolves of the Committee for the Province of Pennsylvania, and their Instructions to the representatives in Assembly. First edition. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by William and Thomas Bradford at the London Coffee-House, 1774. Hardcover rebound in full brown morocco, 5.25 x 8.5, 127 pages. Book condition: G+/None, with edgewear, scuffing to spine, repaired loss to the lower right corner of the title page, small tears and losses to a few other pages, and ownership inscriptions of John and John William Wallace on the title page.
Dickinson had already established a reputation as a brilliant lawyer in 1765, when he wrote his first tract against the Stamp Act, and his Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania published in 1768, put him at the forefront of the patriot movement, he still hoped for conciliation as events moved away from him, however, and by 1774 he was the leader of the conservative patriots. In 1774 he became chairman of the Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence, and this pamphlet consists of three papers he drew up which were adopted by the Committee in July of that year. They state the principles upon which the colonies based their claim to redress, instructions to the Congressional delegates to be chosen by the Assembly, and a treatise on the constitutional power of Great Britain to tax the colonies.
References: Evans 13247; Howes D326; Sabin 20040.
