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concept-280	none	John Dickinson: The Cautious Patriot	2006	15	.pdf	application/pdf	6623	322	59	The Cautious Patriot Elizabeth Crowley History In 1776, rebel agitator John Adams called John Dickinson a “piddling Genius” who gave “a silly Cast to our whole Doings” at the Second Continental Congress.1 He also claimed Dickinson “suffered by the Timidity of . . . According to Flower, while Dickinson may have begun his career as a radical, he ended as a conservative in 1776.31 Other historians, such as John Ferling, have borrowed Flower’s theme and have also portrayed John Dickinson as a “conservative revolutionary.	cache/concept-280.pdf	txt/concept-280.txt