Inventing the People : The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America - Edmund S. Morgan

Inventing the People

The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America

By: Edmund S. Morgan

Paperback | 1 October 1989 | Edition Number 1

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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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