John dickinson biography for kids

About the Author

John Dickinson
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John Dickinson was born in Talbot County, Maryland on November 2, The family - father Samuel Dickinson, his second wife, Mary Cadwalader of Philadelphia, and assorted step-brothers and sisters - moved to an estate in Delaware a few years after.

There the children enjoyed the privileged upbringing and private education of the landed elite.

John dickinson biography for kids

At eighteen, John Dickinson became a law student in the Philadelphia offices of John Moland. In , he traveled to London to study at the Middle Temple. Here he absorbed the particularly English legal attitude of entitlement to protection of ancient rights against new methods of arbitrary rule that had dominated the previous century in British legal and political affairs.

This experience and his voracious capacity for study, together with the natural conservatism of his background, marked his overwhelming interest in the relationship between politics and history and foretold his remarkable life of public servic