The Capacity To Judge : : Public Opinion and Deliberative Democracy in Upper Canada,1791-1854 /

The Capacity To Judge : : Public Opinion and Deliberative Democracy in Upper Canada,1791-1854 / / Jeffrey McNairn.

By the mid-nineteenth-century, 'public opinion' emerged as a new form of authority in Upper Canada. Contemporaries came to believe that the best answer to common questions arose from deliberation among private individuals. Older conceptions of government, sociability and the relationship b...

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McNairn, Jeffrey,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2000
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (480 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Creating a Public
  • Chapter I: 'The very image and transcript': Transplanting the Ancient Constitution
  • Chapter II. Experiments in Democratic Sociability: The Political Significance of Voluntary Associations
  • Chapter III. 'The most powerful engine of the human mind': The Press and Its Readers
  • Chapter IV. 'A united public opinion that must be obeyed': The Politics of Public Opinion
  • Part Two. Debating the Alternatives
  • Chapter V. 'We are become in every thing but name, a Republic': The Metcalfe Crisis and the Demise of Mixed Monarchy
  • Chapter VI. Publius of the North: Tory Republicanism and the American Constitution
  • Chapter VII. Mistaking 'the shadow for the substance': Laying the Foundations of Parliamentary Government
  • Chapter VIII. 'Its success ... must depend on the force of public opinion': Primogeniture and the Necessity of Debate
  • Conclusions and Speculative Questions
  • Bibliography of Printed Primary Sources
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index

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