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The Death of Whiggery : Lower Canadian British Constitutionalism and the ‘Tentation de l’histoire paralelle’
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The Death of Whiggery : Lower Canadian British Constitutionalism and the ‘Tentation de l’histoire paralelle’
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| Abstract |
The author argues that the Constitution Act of 1791 was meant to create in Lower Canada the eighteenth century British Whig values of “Liberty and Property”. For the English-speaking Lower Canadian elite, these Whig values formed a coherent framework that made legitimate their conflict with the French-Canadian majority for control over politics. The attachment to ‘Whiggery’ ended after the 1840s, not as a result of the emergence of responsible government in Canada but, according to the author, because English-speaking Lower Canadians responded to parallel changes in British political society.
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Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de la Société historique du Canada
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(New Series) Vol. 2
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195-213
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1991
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en
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McCulloch, Michael. “The Death of Whiggery : Lower Canadian British Constitutionalism and the ‘Tentation de l’Histoire Paralelle.’” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de la Société historique du Canada (New Series) Vol. 2 (1991): 195–213. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/jcha/1991-v2-n1-jcha998/031034ar.pdf.
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