John+Dickinson+-+SP09

- John Dickinson was a Democratic- Republican

- He represented Delaware in the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Delaware had a great geography it was set up as a fort and a trade house. Delaware could control the east coast because it had access to the Delaware River and the Delaware Bay. The Bay made it easy to trade by sea. Delaware also had many natural resources, it was extremely fertile, and they had great fishing. Delaware had a more advanced economy at that time. They had paper money signed by the governor and copper coins. They had shipbuilding, ironworks, trading and shipping, and lumber and timber industry as some of their main jobs. The social culture for Delaware was for everyone to get along. There was no room for interpretation of the norms of society, everyone worked to better the colony. The population continued to increase just like everything else. They weren't one of the larger states, but they were close in population and industry.

- Some of work Dickinson did was: member of Stamp Act Congress, member of Continental Congress, governor of Pennsylvania, and a member of Constitutional Convention. He studied law at the Temple in London because then he wanted to be a lawyer, but later he found that life wasn't for him. Dickinson was born into a wealthy family in Maryland. His father was the first judge to the Court of Pleas in Delaware.

- Dickinson was involved in the Constitutional Convention Dickinson main involvement to the constitution were mainly about the election and the powers of the president. Dickinson did not like this constitution so to encourage the ratification of the constitution he went back to journalism, he went under the name "Fabius".

- Dickinson was not a member of the ratifying convention

- Friends Thomas Jefferson Thomas McKean

-too much power in the hand of the government- he proposed that he Senate be elected by state legislature- influential in determining manner of election for president

Sources 1. [|http://www.mvschools.org/ms/projects/colonies/].

[|2. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/dickinson.htm]. [|3. http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/d/ed_dickinsonJ.htm]  

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