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

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W. W. Norton & Company, 17 sept. 1989 - 318 pages

"The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naiveté concerning the governmental process." —Michael Kamman, Washington Post

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.
 

Table des matières

Acknowledgments
9
PART ONE Origins
11
PART TWO Useful Ambiguities
149
PART THREE The American Way
235
From Deference to Leadership
288
Index
307
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À propos de l'auteur (1989)

Edmund S. Morgan (1916–2013) was the Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University and the recipient of the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, and the American Academy’s Gold Medal. The author of The Genuine Article; American Slavery, American Freedom; Benjamin Franklin; and American Heroes, among many others.

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