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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781442680623
035 _a(DE-B1597)483187
035 _a(OCoLC)1004886087
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082 0 4 _a971.3/02
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMcNairn, Jeffrey
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Capacity To Judge :
_bPublic Opinion and Deliberative Democracy in Upper Canada,1791-1854 /
_cJeffrey McNairn.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[2000]
264 4 _c©2000
300 _a1 online resource (480 p.) :
_b10 b&w illustrations, 1 b&w map
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aHeritage
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520 _aBy 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 deliberative democracy. 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 Jürgen Habermas and based on extensive research in period newspapers, Jeffrey L. McNairn argues that voluntary associations and the press created a reading public capable of reasoning on matters of state, and that the dynamics of political conflict invested that public with final authority. He traces how contemporaries grappled with the consequences as they scrutinized parliamentary, republican and radical options for institutionalizing public opinion. The Capacity to Judge concludes with a case study of deliberative democracy in action that serves as a sustained defense of the type of intellectual history the book as a whole exemplifies.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 4 _aDISCOUNT-B.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867).
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