Politics and Peace Testimony in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895083 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Tully (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 159-178 |
| Publication date | 1982-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-013-02-02 |
| OpenAlex | W2072489650 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
On June 4, 1756, six Quaker legislators resigned from the Pennsylvania Assembly pleading that they could not provide the "services in a military way" that their constituents demanded during wartime. Four months later four others followed suit.1 This "Quaker withdrawal from government" has attracted a great deal of historical attention. Some observers have pointed to the event as illustrative of the limitations, if not the hypocrisy and utter failure, of pacifists in government.2 Others have been more sympathetic, foremost among them those Quaker historians who have depicted the with- drawal as the great early American example of principle conquering expedi- ency. From the founding of Pennsylvania through the French and Indian War, these historians maintain, Quaker politicians succeeded in remaining true to their pacifist beliefs: when war was finally thrust upon them and they could no longer uphold their pacifism, they withdrew from politics rather than compromise those beliefs.3
Compromise · Government (linguistics · Hypocrisy · Pleading · Political science · Politics · Spanish Civil War · American Constitutional Law and Politics · European Political History Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |