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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 between knowledge and power were jettisoned for a new image of Upper Canada as a

Title : The Capacity to Judge: Public Opinion and Deliberative Democracy in Upper Canada,1791-1854
Author : Jeffrey L. McNairn
Language : en
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