Penn’s Initial Approach to Economic Base-Building The Protestant ethic was never lacking in Quaker hard-working, long-suffering husbandman and entrepreneurs. Quakers had among their approximately 50,000
Category: Book 1
penn’s frame AND settlement politics
By conventional accounts, the Quakers–industrious, lower middle-class, equalitarian, and persecuted for their mystical religious beliefs–fled the oppressive government of a corrupt English society for the
6..0 Benjamin Franklin: the Charismatic Privatist Fixer-Upper
6..0 Benjamin Franklin: the Charismatic Privatist Fixer-Upper Benjamin Franklin strikes me as a John the Baptist-type figure. Like the Baptist, Franklin paved the way for
4.55 the Charter of Privileges: Pennsylvania’s First Policy System Starts its Distinctive Path of Political/Policy Development
To put some perspective on Penn’s Frame of Government, his personal compact with the First Purchasers was based on what E. Digby Baltzell calls “the
Preface to Pennsylvania and Segue Way from Virginia: Gee Whiz, they are different from the start
First Draft Only Why are States and Cities Different from Each Other? That is “The Question” which this history seeks to answer. This book begins at
4.6 the Philadelphia Municipal Corporation: Assessors, Separately Elected Functions: Laying the Foundation for Warner’s Privatism
Penn gave little particular thought to Pennsylvania’s governance–other than to copy the English sub-state political institutions/structures on paper into his Frame of Governance. After all