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Inventing the People

By Morgan , Edmund S

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN
0393306232, 9780393347494, 9780393306231
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
615 kB (630016 bytes)
Pages
318\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Sovranità popolare;Sovranità popolare -- Storia

Description

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

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