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anti-responsible Hist. 
n. a political group opposed to responsible government for the Canadas; hence, anti-responsible-ist.
- 1840 Both parties . . . were to blame, but most so the "Anti-responsibles," since they went from Toronto avowedly for the purpose of driving their opponents from the ground.
- 1844 There is nothing in it to irritate its extreme antipodist on either side; for there are uncompromising anti-Responsible-ists as well as Responsibleists of the whole figure, between which two parties is one, outnumbering as we believe, either of the two, and whose sentiments may be fairly assumed to be embodied and represented in the pamphlet before us.
- 1840 Both parties . . . were to blame, but most so the "Anti-responsibles," since they went from Toronto avowedly for the purpose of driving their opponents from the ground.