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Inventing the people

the rise of popular sovereignty in England and America

by Edmund Sears Morgan

1988 318 pages eng

Morgan argues, in effect, that representative democracy is a tool to bolster rule by the powerful few over the many; the majority are thus led to believe they control their own destiny. In this quietly subversive rereading of our history, American colonists perfected the fiction of popular rule by i…

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