Letters From John Dickinson

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In John Dickinson’s Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer, the letters state that the farmer was concerned about the future not pushing for succession just worried about all the taxes they were facing from Great Britain. John Dickinson was just wanting the grievances to stop against the American subjects and was writing the letters addressed to “My countrymen” trying to state that they are all one as a nation not separate. In some of our earlier reads, we have seen the same arguments, in some of the same styles as Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer. Therefore, we can conclude that John Dickinson might have gotten his style or thoughts from previous authors like John Locke and Adam Smith and how he includes quotes from Plutarch and Montesquieu. How do different governments that John Locke presented play a part in what Dickinson is going through? John Locke in Second Treatise of Government, goes into details about Paternal power like a father over his children which are not equal, and temporary “father’s empire then, ceases, and he can …no more dispose of the liberty of his son, then that of any other man” (Locke 36). In comparison to Dickinson, where he writes that Great Britain “She regulated their trade...as she thought most conducive to their mutual advantage, and her own welfare” sounds like the same idea that the parent was about to be forced to let go (Dickinson 28). In addition, Dickinson questions why their agents did not represent to the King’s ministry to try to