Devenir porte-parole durant l’ère des révolutions : le lent et (parfois) difficile parcours des avocats du Québec colonial
This article highlights the political side of the history of the legal profession in colonial Quebec. Established by the French in the 17th century and ceded to the British in 1763, the colony of Canada experienced the American turmoil in the 1770s and even had its revolutionary uprising, albeit uns...
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| description | This article highlights the political side of the history of the legal profession in colonial Quebec. Established by the French in the 17th century and ceded to the British in 1763, the colony of Canada experienced the American turmoil in the 1770s and even had its revolutionary uprising, albeit unsuccessful, in 1837-1838. With that peculiar and hectic historical path in mind, the paper addresses the problem of the lawyer as a spokesperson and legal defender in a colonial order facing growing liberal aspirations. Firstly, it tackles the problem of the slow emergence of the legal profession in the 18th century in an Atlantic perspective. Factors such as state power and (legal) culture are more specifically pinpointed to explain the uneasy rise of the Quebec bar. Secondly, the paper focuses on the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, at a time when some of the lawyers became prominent political figures, while others contributed by their writings or their defence speeches to the nascent colonial public space. Without a doubt, the figure of the lawyer as a spokesperson did exist in colonial Quebec, sometime arousing general indignation or expressing more simply people’s claims. But those who were more prone to criticize the colonial regime were lawyers that dedicated themselves to the public sphere and were active on other forums, the legislature or the press in particular. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5aa37567e8ac4f339babacdf58101e692025-01-06T09:15:58ZengCriminocorpusCriminocorpus2108-69072016-10-0110.4000/criminocorpus.3391Devenir porte-parole durant l’ère des révolutions : le lent et (parfois) difficile parcours des avocats du Québec colonialJean-Philippe GarneauThis article highlights the political side of the history of the legal profession in colonial Quebec. Established by the French in the 17th century and ceded to the British in 1763, the colony of Canada experienced the American turmoil in the 1770s and even had its revolutionary uprising, albeit unsuccessful, in 1837-1838. With that peculiar and hectic historical path in mind, the paper addresses the problem of the lawyer as a spokesperson and legal defender in a colonial order facing growing liberal aspirations. Firstly, it tackles the problem of the slow emergence of the legal profession in the 18th century in an Atlantic perspective. Factors such as state power and (legal) culture are more specifically pinpointed to explain the uneasy rise of the Quebec bar. Secondly, the paper focuses on the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, at a time when some of the lawyers became prominent political figures, while others contributed by their writings or their defence speeches to the nascent colonial public space. Without a doubt, the figure of the lawyer as a spokesperson did exist in colonial Quebec, sometime arousing general indignation or expressing more simply people’s claims. But those who were more prone to criticize the colonial regime were lawyers that dedicated themselves to the public sphere and were active on other forums, the legislature or the press in particular.https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/3391LawyerStatelegal culturepublic spaceColonial HistoryCanada |
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| title | Devenir porte-parole durant l’ère des révolutions : le lent et (parfois) difficile parcours des avocats du Québec colonial |
| title_full | Devenir porte-parole durant l’ère des révolutions : le lent et (parfois) difficile parcours des avocats du Québec colonial |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Devenir porte-parole durant l’ère des révolutions : le lent et (parfois) difficile parcours des avocats du Québec colonial |
| title_short | Devenir porte-parole durant l’ère des révolutions : le lent et (parfois) difficile parcours des avocats du Québec colonial |
| title_sort | devenir porte parole durant l ere des revolutions le lent et parfois difficile parcours des avocats du quebec colonial |
| topic | Lawyer State legal culture public space Colonial History Canada |
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