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Inventing the people: The rise of popular sovereignty in England and America

hardcover – January 1, 1988
by Morgan, Edmund S.
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ISBN-13: 9780393025057 ISBN-10: 0393025055
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Binding
hardcover
Published
January 1, 1988
Weight
1.3 lbs
Dimensions
20.30×2.50×12.70 cm

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Inventing the people: The rise of popular sovereignty in England and America by Morgan, Edmund S.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780393025057.

"The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naivetà concerning the governmental process." â Michael Kamman, Washington Post 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 sovereigntyâ the unexpected offspring of an older, equally fictional notion, the "divine right of kings"â has worked in our history and remains a political force today.