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Inventing the People

The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America

By: Edmund S. Morgan

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Paperback | 1 October 1989 | Edition Number 1

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320 Pages

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This book makes the provocative case here that America has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and used it to impose a government on the new nation. His landmark analysis shows how the notion of popular sovereignty--the unexpected offspring of an older, equally fictional notion, the "divine right of kings"--has worked in our history and remains a political force today.

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[A] provocative new study. . . . In a series of brilliant chapters, [Morgan] probes the myths that sustained eighteenth-century American notions of liberty.--Keith Thomas "New York Review of Books"

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government Political Structure & Processes Constitution & The Government & The State Society & Culture Cultural Studies Political Ideologies & Movements History Regional & National History History of the Americas European History British & Irish History

Science Science in General Central Government

The Divine Right of Kings	p. 17
The Enigma of Representation	p. 38
Inventing the Sovereign People	p. 55
The People's Two Bodies	p. 78
The Cautious Revolution	p. 94
Colonial Peoples	p. 122
The People in Arms: The Invincible Yeoman	p. 153
The People's Choice: Elections and Electioneering	p. 174
The People's Voice: Instructions, Petitions, Associations	p. 209
The Incautious Revolution	p. 239
Inventing an American People	p. 263
Epilogue: From Deference to Leadership	p. 288
Index	p. 307
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Inventing the People

The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America

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