Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, History & Theory, Government
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Author: Edmund S. Morgan ISBN: 9780393347494
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: September 17, 1989
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Edmund S. Morgan
ISBN: 9780393347494
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: September 17, 1989
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

"The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naiveté concerning the governmental process." —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 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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"The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naiveté concerning the governmental process." —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 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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