The capacity to judge : public opinion and deliberative democracy in Upper Canada, 1791-1854 /
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
©2000.
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| Series: | Heritage.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=468520 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1 Creating a Public
- 1 'The very image and transcript': Transplanting the Ancient Constitution 23
- 2 Experiments in Democratic Sociability: The Political Significance of Voluntary Associations 63
- 3 'The most powerful engine of the human mind': The Press and Its Readers 116
- 4 'A united public opinion that must be obeyed': The Politics of Public Opinion 176
- Part 2 Debating the Alternatives
- 5 'We are become in every thing but name, a Republic': The Metcalfe Crisis and the Demise of Mixed Monarchy 237
- 6 Publius of the North: Tory Republicanism and the American Constitution 272
- 7 Mistaking 'the shadow for the substance': Laying the Foundations of Parliamentary Government 304
- 8 'Its success ... must depend on the force of public opinion': Primogeniture and the Necessity of Debate 360.