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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| 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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