Framers' Coup - The Making of the United States Constitution Klarman Michael J. Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law Harvard University Paperback
Framers' Coup - The Making of the United States Constitution Klarman Michael J. Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law Harvard University Paperback Americans revere their Constitution. As Benjamin…
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Framers' Coup - The Making of the United States Constitution Klarman Michael J. Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law Harvard University Paperback
Americans revere their Constitution. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were.
Based on prodigious research and told largely through the voices of the participants, Michael Klarman's The Framers' Coup narrates how the Framers' clashing interests shaped the Constitution--and American history itself.The Philadelphia convention could easily have been a failure, and the risk of collapse was always present. One need not deny that the Framers had good intentions in order to believe that they also had interests. Had the convention dissolved, any number of adverse outcomes could have resulted, including civil war or a reversion to