Inventing the People The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America
, by Morgan, Edmund S.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780393306231 | 0393306232
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/17/1989
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#xE2;#x80;#x94;the unexpected offspring of an older, equally fictional notion, the "divine right of kings"#xE2;#x80;#x94;has worked in our history and remains a political force today.