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The Capacity To Judge
Public Opinion and Deliberative Democracy in Upper Canada,1791-1854
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English
Published/Copyright:
2000
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Arguing that voluntary associations and the press created a reading public capable of reasoning on matters of state, McNairn traces the emergence of 'public opinion' as a new form of authority in mid-19th century Upper Canada.
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McNairn Jeffrey :
Jeffrey L. McNairn is an associate professor in the Department of History at Queen's University and winner of the John Bullen Prize awarded by the Canadian Historical Association for the best doctoral dissertation.
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction
1 - Part One. Creating a Public
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Chapter I: ‘The very image and transcript’: Transplanting the Ancient Constitution
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Chapter II. Experiments in Democratic Sociability: The Political Significance of Voluntary Associations
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Chapter III. ‘The most powerful engine of the human mind’: The Press and Its Readers
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Chapter IV. ‘A united public opinion that must be obeyed’: The Politics of Public Opinion
176 - Part Two. Debating the Alternatives
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Chapter V. ‘We are become in every thing but name, a Republic’: The Metcalfe Crisis and the Demise of Mixed Monarchy
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Chapter VI. Publius of the North: Tory Republicanism and the American Constitution
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Chapter VII. Mistaking ‘the shadow for the substance’: Laying the Foundations of Parliamentary Government
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Chapter VIII. ‘Its success ... must depend on the force of public opinion’: Primogeniture and the Necessity of Debate
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Conclusions and Speculative Questions
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Bibliography of Printed Primary Sources
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Index
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November 1, 2000
eBook ISBN:
9781442680623
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480
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10 b&w illustrations, 1 b&w map
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9781442680623
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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
