To understand the war of 1812 you must study the undemocratic self serving Family Compact which nearly destroyed Canada.
These lessons learned can be applied today. Our Government today is an extension of oil exploration business and undemocratic.
In 1810 the Family Compact small closed group of men first began to
exercise their practically complete political and judicial power over
Upper Canada.
Prior to the war of 1812 Upper Canada lacked the
democratic privileges Americans enjoyed. Some attacking Americans
believed they would find supporters among the opposition to the Family
Compact.
The war of 1812 strengthen the political and judicial power of the Family Compact.
Rebellions of 1837
The Upper Canada Rebellion was an abortive uprising in Upper Canada
against Upper Canada oligarchy, the Family Compact, followed by a series
of raids, skirmishes, and other small actions over the next year, many
of them launched from the United States.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/
Prior to the war of 1812 Upper Canada lacked the democratic privileges Americans enjoyed. Some attacking Americans believed they would find supporters among the opposition to the Family Compact.
The war of 1812 strengthen the political and judicial power of the Family Compact.
Rebellions of 1837
The Upper Canada Rebellion was an abortive uprising in Upper Canada against Upper Canada oligarchy, the Family Compact, followed by a series of raids, skirmishes, and other small actions over the next year, many of them launched from the United States.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/
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This constituted "his mission as a public man in Canada." At heart Mackenzie's fundamental political belief was that government was a trust to be administered on behalf of the governed. Any deviation by a public person from the straight and narrow path of public service, any abuse of public office for private advantage and high salary, any undue private gain from public measures must be denounced and exposed for the public good. His central theme was of government as a trust.
In Upper Canada he believed that trust had been violated again and again and anything less than the complete overthrow of the system would be a waste of time. "To die fighting for freedom is truly glorious," he wrote in November 1837. Mackenzie stormed about the province preaching revolution among the disaffected.
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To understand the war of 1812 in Upper Canada, you must study the undemocratic self serving Family Compact which nearly destroyed Canada.
In 1810 the Family Compact small closed group of men first began to exercise their practically complete political and judicial power over Upper Canada.
Prior to the war of 1812 Upper Canada lacked the democratic privileges Americans enjoyed. Upper and Lower Canada were only lightly defended by the British Army and some attacking Americans believed they would find supporters in Upper Canada among the opposition to the Family Compact.
The war of 1812 strengthened the political and judicial power of the Family Compact.
Rebellions against the Family Compact did occur in 1837.
This constituted "his mission as a public man in Canada." At heart
Mackenzie's fundamental political belief was that government was a trust to be administered on behalf of the governed. Any deviation by a public person from the straight and narrow path of public service, any abuse of public office for private advantage and high salary, any undue private gain from public measures must be denounced and exposed for the public good. His central theme was of government as a trust.
In Upper Canada he believed that trust had been violated again and again and anything less than the complete overthrow of the system would be a waste of time. "To die fighting for freedom is truly glorious," he wrote in November 1837. Mackenzie stormed about the province preaching revolution among the disaffected.
http://www.uppercanadahistory.ca/pp/pp6.html
The Upper Canada Rebellion was an abortive uprising in Upper Canada against Upper Canada oligarchy, the Family Compact, followed by a series of raids, skirmishes, and other small actions over the next year, many of them launched from the United States.
These lessons learned can be applied today. Canada does not have the democratic safe guards that Americans enjoy. The Senate and Government Auditors are appointed by the Prime-Minister of Canada. The Prime-Minister of Canada can prorogue Parliament to prevent a coalition political parties forming the Government and halt parliamentary investigations war crimes. Recent changes in the selection of the supreme court judiciary have allowed appointments to be controlled by the Prime-Minister of Canada. Before coming to power Stephen Harper wrote, "Although we like to think of ourselves as living in a mature democracy, we live, instead,in something little better than a benign dictatorship, not under a strict one-party rule, but under a one-party-plus system beset by the factionalism, regionalism and cronyism that accompany any such system.", Our benign dictatorship by Stephen Harper and Tom Flanagan.
Early Canada Historical Narratives -- ROAD TO REBELLION
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