The Framers' Coup: The Making of the U.S. Constitution — Why It Was Designed to Resist Democracy
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Why do some governments respond directly to public opinion while others deliberately filter it? In The Framers' Coup, constitutional scholar Michael J. Klarman examines the creation of the United States Constitution as an exercise in institutional design. Rather than portraying the Founding as a story of political perfection or inevitable progress, Klarman reveals how economic instability, competing regional interests, slavery, commerce, and concerns about democratic volatility shaped a…
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