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The Framers' Coup The Making of the United States Constitution

Michael J. Klarman

Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local inter...

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He described that the book argued the Constitution was a counterrevolutionary move by the framers to curb the excesses of early democratic impulses.

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The Framers' Coup, that there's a real sense in which the Constitution represents a counter revolution against what was going on up until the framers met in the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia to write...

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He described that the book argued the Constitution was a counterrevolutionary move by the framers to curb the excesses of early democratic impulses.

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The Framers' Coup, that there's a real sense in which the Constitution represents a counter revolution against what was going on up until the framers met in the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia to write the Constitution.

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