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Jacobin
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a follower of Judge Robert Thorpe, an Irishman who led dissident elements of Upper Canada (1805-1807) in opposition to the oligarchy.
Quotations
1828
In the first place, he denied the "Jacobins," as Thorpe's party now came to be called, the freedom of the press.
1958
In Upper Canada he became the leader of the so-called Jacobins in their campaign against the Governor and the Family Compact.