POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Gad Horowitz, Louis Hartz, English Canada
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The first is the fragment theory, espoused by us political scientist louis hartz and. Canadian political scientist gad horowitz (dyck, p. 250). The american rev. was led by colonists espousing liberal values. The colonists who insisted on remaining loyal to the british crown were compelled to flee the new country of the us after their side lost in the revolutionary war. These loyalists formed canada in a conscious rejection (hartz & horowitz argue) of american liberalism, bringing with them conservative or tory values which were no longer acceptable in the us, a country created in the name of liberal values. Now that tory values had been formally ejected from the us, that country evolved into an overwhelmingly liberal society (a liberal fragment"), where non-liberal values are generally held to be suspect un-american. Canada is a two fragment society because of the presence of quebec.
