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

Publication subTitle ：Public Opinion and Deliberative Democracy in Upper Canada,1791-1854

Publication series ：Heritage

Author： McNairn Jeffrey  

Publisher： University of Toronto Press‎

Publication year： 2000

E-ISBN: 9781442680623

Subject： D09 in the history of politics, political history;D73/77 National Politics;K1 World History;K7 Americas History

Keyword： 各国政治,政治理论,政治学史、政治思想史,其他政治理论问题,美洲史,世界史

Language： ENG

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Description

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.

Chapter

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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