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

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

Edmund S. Morgan

320 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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