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Loading... Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and Americaby Edmund S. Morgan
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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 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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)320.20973Social sciences Political Science Political Science Political LegitimacyLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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