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

----- 评判能力：加拿大上游的舆论和协商民主，1791-1854

ISBN: 9781442680623 出版年：2017 页码：480 McNairn, Jeffrey University of Toronto Press

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.