Volume 35, Number 18 · November 24, 1988
Just Say Yes
By Keith Thomas
Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America
by Edmund S. Morgan
Norton, 318 pp., $18.95
Why is it that most people obey the government under which they find themselves? Why do the many submit willingly to be governed by the few? Edmund S. Morgan, the distinguished American colonial historian, begins his provocative new study by citing the famous answer given to this conundrum in the mid-eighteenth century by the philosopher David Hume:
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