Family Compact | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 06/01/2019

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00:01:26 1 "Gentlemanly capitalism" and British colonialism
00:06:00 1.1 Constitutional context
00:08:12 1.2 Membership
00:09:40 1.3 Loyalist ideology
00:12:12 2 Levers of power
00:12:50 2.1 Government position
00:12:59 2.1.1 Executive and Legislative Councils
00:15:00 2.1.2 Magistracy and Courts of Quarter Sessions
00:16:08 2.1.3 Law Society and Juvenile Advocate's Society
00:19:13 2.2 Church of England
00:19:22 2.2.1 Established church
00:19:55 2.2.2 Clergy reserves
00:21:05 2.2.3 Upper Canada College and Kings College
00:23:16 2.3 Bank of Upper Canada
00:25:40 2.4 Land and agriculture
00:28:12 3 Opposition
00:28:21 3.1 The Reform Movement
00:29:36 3.2 Colborne Clique
00:30:24 4 Post-Rebellion decline



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The Family Compact is the term used by historians for a small closed group of men who exercised most of the political, economic and judicial power in Upper Canada (modern Ontario) from the 1810s to the 1840s. It was the Upper Canadian equivalent of the Château Clique in Lower Canada. It was noted for its conservatism and opposition to democracy.
The term Family Compact first appeared in a letter written by Marshall Spring Bidwell to William Warren Baldwin in 1828. Family did not mean relations by marriage, but rather a close brotherhood. Lord Durham noted in 1839 "There is, in truth, very little of family connection among the persons thus united".The Family Compact emerged from the War of 1812 and collapsed in the aftermath of the Rebellions of 1837. Their resistance to the political principle of responsible government contributed to its short life. At the end of its lifespan, the compact would be condemned by Lord Durham as "a petty corrupt insolent Tory clique".