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"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 Jurgen Habermas as well as 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 defence of the type of intellectual history the book as a whole exemplifies."--BOOK JACKET.
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The capacity to judge: public opinion and deliberative democracy in Upper Canada, 1791-1854
2000, University of Toronto Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-447) and index.
Revision of the author's dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 1997.
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