DCHP-3

Gagging Bill

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a bill passed in Upper Canada in 1819, prohibiting the holding of political conventions.

Quotations

1824
Though I were not to speak of the gagging bill, yet a disgrace to our statute book.
1832
Were the disgraceful Gagging Bill of 1818--the appropriation of THREE THOUSAND POUNDS of the people's money to Governor Gore, in 1816, for the purpose of buying a service of Plate--in accordance with the views and wishes of the yeomanry of Middlesex?
1893
The "Gagging Bill" of of 1819, as "the Act to prevent certain meetings within the Province," was called, was repealed in 1820.