John Dickinson was a republican in his manners and his sentiments—in public life the powerful advocate of his ... Draft of the Articles of Confederation. 1776: Draft of Plan of Treaties. 1777 ...

Jane Calvert argues that Dickinson (1732-1808), a decade before the more famous Founders of what became the United States — before Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and John Adams — ...

John Dickinson's contributions to the Constitution continue to reverberate today. ... the Articles of Confederation (1776). He also advocated women’s rights and was an abolitionist.