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

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

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

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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. 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.

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