Description: Further DetailsTitle: Governed by a Spirit of OppositionCondition: NewSubtitle: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial PhiladelphiaISBN-10: 1421415275EAN: 9781421415277ISBN: 9781421415277Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 02/09/2015Description: During the colonial era, ordinary Philadelphians played an unusually active role in political life. Because the city lacked a strong central government, private individuals working in civic associations of their own making shouldered broad responsibility for education, poverty relief, church governance, fire protection, and even taxation and military defense. These organizations dramatically expanded the opportunities for white men-rich and poor alike - to shape policies that immediately affected their communities and their own lives. In Governed by a Spirit of Opposition, Jessica Choppin Roney explains how allowing people from all walks of life to participate in political activities amplified citizen access and democratic governance. Merchants, shopkeepers, carpenters, brewers, shoemakers, and silversmiths served as churchwardens, street commissioners, constables, and Overseers of the Poor. They volunteered to fight fires, organized relief for the needy, contributed money toward the care of the sick, took up arms in defense of the community, raised capital for local lending, and even interjected themselves in Indian diplomacy.Ultimately, Roney suggests, popular participation in charity, schools, the militia, and informal banks empowered people in this critically important colonial city to overthrow the existing government in 1776 and re-envision the parameters of democratic participation. Governed by a Spirit of Opposition argues that the American Revolution did not occasion the birth of commonplace political activity or of an American culture of voluntary association. Rather, the Revolution built upon a long history of civic engagement and a complicated relationship between the practice of majority-rule and exclusionary policy-making on the part of appointed and self-selected constituencies.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 23mmItem Weight: 499gAuthor: Jessica Choppin RoneyGenre: Law & PoliticsBook Series: Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of PhiladelphiaType: United StatesTopic: HistoryRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Governed by a Spirit of Opposition
Title: Governed by a Spirit of Opposition
Subtitle: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelph
ISBN-10: 1421415275
EAN: 9781421415277
ISBN: 9781421415277
Release Date: 02/09/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Governed by a Spirit of Opposition : The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: American Government / Local, Political Process / General, Economic History, Public Affairs & Administration, Sociology / General, United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), General, Social Activists, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Item Height: 0.9 in
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Jessica Choppin Roney
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
Series: Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
