The capacity to judge : public opinion and deliberative democracy in Upper Canada, 1791-1854 /
"The Capacity to Judge asks what made widespread public debate about common issues possible; why it came to be seen as desirable, even essential; and how it was integrated into Upper Canada's constitutional and social self-image. Drawing on an international body of literature indebted to J...
| Основен автор: | McNairn, Jeffrey L., 1967- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
℗♭2000.
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Print version::
Capacity to judge. |
Съдържание:
- 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.