John Dickinson Autobiography in First Person
This article is an autobiography about John Dickinson in the first person point of view. John Dickinson attended the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787 as a delegate from Delaware and was the President of Delaware and Pennsylvania. Contents in this article include: John Dickinson’s Position on Main Issues at the Constitutional Convention and (a) Personal Background of John Dickinson, (b)Delegates feelings and attitudes towards the issues at the Constitutional Convention, (c) Allies of John Dickinson at the Convention, (d) Enemies of John Dickinson at the Convention.
(b) Delegates feelings and attitudes towards the issues at the Constitutional Convention
1. Yay – for President being elected Congress
2. Yay – on having a President
3. Yay – on Direct Elections
4. Yay – on the Virginia Plan
5. Yay – Checks and Balances
6. Yay – on having an Advisory Board for the President
7. Nay – on the Advisory Board elected by the people
8. State – Decision on how President’s Cabinet should be chosen
9. Yay – Advisory Board should be elected by the President
10. Yay – Native Americans being included in Government
11. Nay – Abolishment of Slavery
12. Nay – Abolishment of Slave Trade
13. Yay – on having a bicameral legislature
(c) My Allies are:
- 1) George Read of Delaware
- 2) James Madison of Virginia
- 3) John Lansing Jr. of New York
- 4) Abraham Baldwin of Georgia
- 5) Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut
- 6) John Rutledge of South Carolina
- 7) Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina
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Alexander Hamilton of New York - 9) Roger Sherman of Connecticut
- 10) Edmund Randolph of Virginia
- 11) Hugh Williamson of North Carolina
- 12) William Few of Georgia
- 13) Charles Pinckney of South Carolina
- 14) Daniel Carroll of Maryland
- 15) William Houston of Georgia
- 16) James McClurg of Virginia
- 17) Richard Dobbs Spaight of North Carolina
- 18) Rufus King of Massachusetts
(d) My Enemies are:
- 1) Luther Martin of Maryland
- 2) William Blount of North Carolina
- 3) Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania
- 4) Thomas Mifflin of Pennsylvania
- 5) Nicholas Gilman of New Hampshire
- 6) John Langdon of New Hampshire
- 7) George Mason of Virginia
- Gunning Bedford of Delaware
- 9) William Livingston of New Jersey
- 10) Robert Morris of Pennsylvania
- 11) William Paterson of New Jersey
- 12) David Brearley of New Jersey
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On December 3, 2009 at 10:09 pm
I hope that this article gave you a general understanding about the life of John Dickinson and his involvement in the Constitutional Congress of 1787.