Amazon.com description: Product Description: Thomas McKean, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was an eminent Middle Colony lawyer, judge and politician during the American Revolution and the early years of the republic. In this study Professor Rowe examines the impact McKean had on America's emerging republican values, and seeks to measure how McKean's character was shaped, in turn, by these early republican ideals and practices This record of how McKean used his influence and political power to promote certain revolutionary ideas and institutions and blunt others - and an analysis of his successes and failures - will help readers understand the process by which the citizens of Pennsylvania and Delaware defined and redefined republicanism during their struggle to institutionalize and evolving political philosophy.