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Spanning four centuries, Imaginary Friends takes readers through the shifting representations of Quaker life in a wide range of literary and visual genres, from theological debates, missionary work records, political theory, and biography to fiction, poetry, theater, and film. It illustrates the ways that, during the long history of Quakerism in the United States, these "imaginary" Friends have offered a radical model of morality, piety, and anti-modernity against which the evolving culture has measured itself.
Quakers --- Friends --- Friends (Quakers) --- Society of Friends --- History. --- United States --- History --- national identity --- Quaker religion in colonial New England --- political theory and Quaker community --- Quaker historiography --- Quaker biography --- Quakers in American fiction --- Quakerism --- theater and cinema
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In the late-seventeenth century, Quakers originated a unique strain of constitutionalism, based on their theology and ecclesiology, which emphasized constitutional perpetuity and radical change through popular peaceful protest. While Whigs could imagine no other means of drastic constitutional reform except revolution, Quakers denied this as a legitimate option to governmental abuse of authority and advocated instead civil disobedience. This theory of a perpetual yet amendable constitution and its concomitant idea of popular sovereignty are things that most scholars believe did not exist until the American Founding. The most notable advocate of this theory was Founding Father John Dickinson, champion of American rights, but not revolution. His thought and action have been misunderstood until now, when they are placed within the Quaker tradition. This theory of Quaker constitutionalism can be traced in a clear and direct line from early Quakers through Dickinson to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quakers --- Constitutional history --- Political science --- Legislators --- Friends --- Friends (Quakers) --- Society of Friends --- Political activity --- History --- Dickinson, John, --- Fabius, --- Farmer in Pennsylvania, --- Rusticus, --- Political and social views. --- United States --- Pennsylvania --- Delaware --- Politics and government --- Arts and Humanities
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