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Conservatives and Conditional Loyalty: The Rebellion Losses Crisis of 1849 in Montreal
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Conservatives and Conditional Loyalty: The Rebellion Losses Crisis of 1849 in Montreal
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In 1849, English-speaking Tories in Montreal engaged in a series of ostensibly disloyal actions: the burning of the Parliament, attacks on the Governor General, and the publication of the Annexation Manifesto. The author points out that even as they did so, these conservatives refused to abandon the language of loyalty. He argues that these English Montrealers instead chose to follow the political philosophy of John Locke, endorsing his 'right of revolution'. In so doing, the author maintains, they demonstrated an ideology eerily similar to that of the American Patriots three-quarters of a century earlier. He argues that the Anglophone Montrealers held a conditional conception of loyalty as a social contract between monarch and subject. The British Crown was seen to have broken this contract through its sanctioning of the Rebellion Losses Bill and its implicit support of 'French Domination'. The author concludes that the connection between mother country and colony was conceived by these Tories as open to negotiation.
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British Journal of Canadian Studies
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Vol. 29
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no. 1
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83-103
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March 2016
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en
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Turing, John. “Conservatives and Conditional Loyalty: The Rebellion Losses Crisis of 1849 in Montreal.” British Journal of Canadian Studies Vol. 29, no. 1 (March 2016): 83–103.
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