The Quaker Effect

How the Quakers helped shape the American Legal System.

More to come as I wade through my resources.

Main sources:

Horle, C. The Quakers and the English Legal System 1660-1688. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1988.

Nash, G. Quakers and Politics: Pennsylvania, 1681-1726. Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey. 1968.

Nash, G. The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1979.

Fisher, S. The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware. Yale University Press: New Haven, Connecticut. 1921.

-- MattDavisRatner - 11 Nov 2009