Jurys, participation civique et représentation au Québec et au Bas-Canada : les grands jurys du district de Montréal (1764-1832)

Type of resource
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Title
Jurys, participation civique et représentation au Québec et au Bas-Canada : les grands jurys du district de Montréal (1764-1832)
Abstract
The author argues that social place, profession and residence determined the selection and representativity of grand juries. He points out that grand juries represented the urban commercial bourgeoisie, both British and Canadien. The grand jury, he maintains, was certainly an integral part of British and Tory identity, but also of the conception of citizenship of the reform elites (both Anglophone and Francophone), who did not reject this British institution. Grand juries played an important political role, but above all at the local level; in the absence of representative municipal institutions, they allowed local elites to influence an administration that directly affected their interests.
Publication
Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française
Volume
Vol. 55
Issue
no. 1
Pages
85-120
Date
Été 2001
Language
fr
URL
Citation
Fyson, Donald. “Jurys, participation civique et représentation au Québec et au Bas-Canada : les grands jurys du district de Montréal (1764-1832).” Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française Vol. 55, no. 1 (t 2001): 85–120. https://www.erudit.org/revue/haf/2001/v55/n1/005424ar.pdf.
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