Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and AmericaW. 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 |
307 | |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America Edmund S. Morgan Aucun aperçu disponible - 1989 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
American Antifederalists argued aristocracy army authority became better sort bill body borough Cambridge candidates carnival Chapel Hill Charles chosen church claim colonies colonists Constitution contest Continental army Continental Congress Convention Declaration deference divine right eighteenth century eignty election electors England English Englishmen ernment Exclusion Crisis fact Federalists fiction gentlemen God's lieutenant Harrington History House of Commons House of Lords house of representatives Ibid independence instructions interest James John king's laws legislation legislature Levellers liberty limits London Long Parliament Madison Massachusetts members of Parliament ment military militia monarch national government officers Parlia Parliamentary persons Petition of Right political polls popular government popular sovereignty Pride's Purge proposed Puritan religious representation representative assembly republican Revolution right of kings Royalists seemed seventeenth social society sover sovereign subjects tatives throne tion Tories town upper house Virginia vote voters Westminster Whigs whole William yeoman yeomanry York