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This paper examines the uses of sedition law in Upper Canada. Largely neglected by historians, sedition prosecutions were frequently resorted to by the government between the 1790s and the 1820s, and are suggestive of larger patterns in the Canadian experience of dissent and national security measures. The essay focuses on the series of eases connected to the Gourlay affair as the best illustrations of the various facets of sedition law in the province. The availability and use of sedition law by the government to regulate provincial polities, and in particular, to delineate the loyal community and its enemies, was contested, sometimes successfully, by opposition leaders. The formal claims of the legal system, while helping to legitimate the exercise of power, also limited the repression to some extent. The cases brought to the fore the tension between the rule of law and discretionary power, played out in terms of issues about executive control over criminal prosecutions, jury selection and the scope fo the jury's verdict, and judicial independence. These contested issues appear to have had some degree of broader public engagement based on popular understandings of the British constitution. The sedition eases not only suggest the importance of law in the exercise of authority, but also the importance of the courts as a site of oppositional struggles.
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This third volume of the Osgoode Society’s Canadian State Trials series covers the period from the 1840s to the First World War. It examines a range of political trials as traditionally defined, including those arising from the Fenian invasions and the North-West Rebellions. The volume also expands the definition of state trials to include studies on the early development of secret policing and the evolution of the legal regulation of riot and public order. The editors have assembled a team of experts from across the country in a variety of fields, and produced a comprehensive and fascinating set of studies of the use of law to control political dissent and public disorder.--Publisher's description.
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This latest collection in our State Trials series, the fourth, looks at the legal issues raised by the repression of dissent from the outset of World War One through the 1930s and the Great Depression. Topics covered include enemy aliens, conscription and courts-martial in World War I, the trials following the Winnipeg General Strike, sedition laws and prosecutions generally and their application to labour radicals in particular, the 1931 trial of the Communist Party leaders, and the religious-political dissent of the Doukhobors. All regions of the country are covered, and special attention given in one essay to Quebec’s repression of radicalism. The volume focusses attention on older manifestations of contemporary dilemmas: what are the acceptable limits of dissent in a democracy, and what limits should be placed on state responses to perceived challenges to its authority. --Publisher's description
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