Toward political responsibility

by Cecil Eugene Hinshaw

Pamphlet, 1954

Status

Available

Call number

CP 80

Publication

Wallingford, Pa. : Pendle Hill, 1954.

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Henshaw asks a perennial Quaker question: how can we relate responsibly to the political structure of our world? We must work to reunite political responsibility and ethical ideas, rather than withdraw. We need a religious and moral renaissance, in order to pursue moral political action. This is
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fine, but un inspiring.
He includes a short review of the history of Quaker legislative control of Pennsylvania, 1682-1765, with the British crown demanding a militia, and finally a draft law passed and most Quakers retired from the Legislature. This may be the most interesting part of the pamphlet.
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