Inventing the people
the rise of popular sovereignty in England and America
Monarchie
Sovereignty
Regierung
Demokratie
Representative government and representation
Geschichte
Political science
New York Times reviewed
History
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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