Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: CANADA'S ORIGINS IN NEW PERSPECTIVE -- Liberal-Republicanism: The Revisionist Picture of Canada's Founding -- PART II: THE TORY PARADIGM -- Conservatism, Liberalism, and Socialism in Canada: An Interpretation -- PART III: REPUBLICAN INFLUENCE -- The Ideological Origins of Canadian Confederation -- The First Distinct Society: French Canada, America, and the Constitution of 1791 -- Civic Humanism Versus Liberalism: Fitting the Loyalists In -- PART IV: LIBERAL ROOTS -- Durham and Robinson: Political Faction and Moderation -- The Triumph of Liberalism in Canada: Laurier on Representation and Party Government -- Egerton Ryerson's Canadian Liberalism -- The Constitutionalism of Étienne Parent and Joseph Howe -- The Provincial Rights Movement: Tensions Between Liberty and Community in Legal Liberalism -- PART V: LOOKING AHEAD -- Canada's Political Culture Today: Liberal, Republican, or Third Wave? -- Selected Bibliography.