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

Edmund S. Morgan, Edmund S. Morgan

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

Edmund S. Morgan, Edmund S. Morgan

318 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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"At the time when England's American colonies were founded, the fictions that sustained government--and liberty--were almost the reverse of those we accept today. Englishmen of the 16th and early 17th century affirmed that men were created unequal...

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