Professor John Fea talked about the people and ideas that shaped the Pennsylvania Constitution, written in 1776. Thomas Paine's pamphlet [Common Sense] was published the same year the Pennsylvania ...

The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 limited voting to free men aged 21, who were residents of the state for a year before the election, and who paid public taxes during that time, ...

The framers of the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 had a tremendous influence on the development of the U.S. Constitution's approach to the balance of powers and the Bill of Rights' subsequent ...

Hence, our PA Dutch starting in the 17th and 18th centuries not only flocked to America, but soon outnumbered the Quaker English settlers, who like them, embraced Penn’s idea of beginning a Holy ...

Robert F. Williams, The Influences of Pennsylvania’s 1776 Constitution on American Constitutionalism During the Founding Decade, 112 Penn. Mag. Of History & Biography 25 (1988).

In 1776, the people of Pennsylvania enacted a new Constitution, which relieved conscientious objectors of the duty to fight but required those opposed to war to “pay such equivalent” in order ...

He drafted the Delaware Constitution of 1776 and served for one month in 1777 as the president of Delaware. Primarily living in Philadelphia after 1774, he started his long tenure as chief justice of ...