Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393306231)

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.

Author: Edmund S. Morgan
ISBN-10: 0393306232
ISBN-13: 9780393306231
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1989
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.90d