This is the most comprehensive paperback edition available, with introduction and chronology of Penn's life and times.
Includes:
An essay towards the present and future peace of Europe
Some fruits of solitude
More fruits of solitude
Fruits of a father's love
A letter from William Penn, Proprietary and Governour of Pennsylvania
The people's ancient and just liberties asserted
The great case of liberty and conscience
A perswasive to moderation to dissenting Christians
Primitive Christianity revived, in the faith and practice of the people called Quakers
A brief account of the rise and progress of the people, called Quakers
William Penn was an English founder and "Absolute Proprietor" of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future U.S. State of Pennsylvania. He was known as an early champion of democracy and religious freedom and famous for his good relations and his treaties with the Lenape Indians. Under his direction, Philadelphia was planned and developed.
As one of the earlier supporters of colonial unification, Penn wrote and urged for a Union of all the English colonies in what was to become the United States of America. The democratic principles that he set forth in the Pennsylvania Frame(s) of Government served as an inspiration for the United States Constitution. As a pacifist Quaker, Penn considered the problems of war and peace deeply, and included a plan for a United States of Europe, "European Dyet, Parliament or Estates," in his voluminous writings.
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