William penn biography summary graphic organizer

William Penn is the father of Democracy in the United States, who Thomas Jefferson called

"the greatest lawgiver the world has produced."

He was a pacifist Quaker whose founding of the Christian government of Pennsylvania in inspired the later United States of America; his family kept ownership of it until the American Revolution.

William Penn was also one of the great champions of religious freedom in 17th century England, repeatedly imprisoned, who helped preserve the greatly persecuted Quaker religion that survives today.

Penn's new government originated the principles of representative government, separation of church and state, and elimination of nobility and ranks while producing almost exactly a century before the U.S.

Constitution concepts such as an elected 2-house Congress to pass bills, religious freedom, freedom of speech, and a Bill of Rights.

He also, in , drafted a len