desno|mini|Frederick S. Lambova slika William Penna u Brooklyn muzeju William Penn (14. oktobra 1644 – 30. jula 1718) bio je sin Sir William Penna, i bio je engleski poduzetnik nekretnina, filozof, rani kveker, i osnivač engleske sjevernoameričke kolonije Provincija Pennsylvania. On je rani zagovornik demokratije i vjerske slobode, poznat po dobrim odnosima i uspješnom ugovoru postignutom sa domorocima u Delawareu. Pod njegovom upravom, planirana je i razvijena Philadelphia.
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Lesson Plan: William Penn's Peaceable Kingdom William Penn Appleton and Klos Biography The Life of William Penn by M. L. Weems, 1829. Full-text free to read and search version of Tim Unterreiner biography from 1829 original published in Philadelphia. William Penn, Visionary Proprietor by Tuomi J. Forrest, at the University of Virginia William Penn, America's First Great Champion for Liberty and Peace by Jim Powell William Penn by Bill Samuel Penn's Holy Experiment: The Seed of a Nation Penn in the Tower of London Hidden London Penn in the Tower original version of this article (copied with permission) "Pennsylvania's Anarchist Experiment: 1681–1690", Prof. Murray N. Rothbard, excerpt from Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 1 (Auburn, Alabama: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1999)
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No Cross, No Crown (1669). 2nd edition published in 1682. Written during his imprisonment in the Tower of London. The Christian Quaker, and his divine testimony vindicated by Scripture, reason, and authorities, against the injurious attempts ... lately made ... to render him odiously inconsistent with Christianity and Civil Society. In II. Parts., (1674).(part one written by Penn; Part two by George Whitehead, 1673). True Spiritual Liberty (1681) Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims (1682) Frame Of Government Of Pennsylvania (1682) From the Avalon Project, Yale Law School. Letter to his wife, Gulielma (1682) Early Quaker writings contains several documents by Penn and his wife. A Key (1692) Primitive Christianity Revived (1696) Preface to George Fox's Journal (1694) The Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers by William Penn (1905 ed.) An Essay towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe by the Establishment of a European Dyet, Parliament or Estates (1693) Full text at Internet Archive (archive.org) Dunn, Mary Maples, Dunn, Richard S., Bronner, Edwin, and Fraser, David. The papers of William Penn, 5 volumes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981–87.
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