The capacity to judge : public opinion and deliberative democracy in Upper Canada, 1791-1854 /

书目详细资料
主要作者: McNairn, Jeffrey L., 1967-
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2000.
丛编:Heritage.
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书本目录:
  • 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.