ACS presents Constitution Day: The Framers and the Making of the Constitution with Professor Klarman

In commemoration of Constitution Day, Harvard Law School Professor Michael Klarman, an expert on constitutional law and constitutional history, delivered a talk titled “The Framers and the Making of the Constitution,” which outlined the ways the framers managed to convince Americans, through a reasonably democratic process, to approve a Constitution that vastly expanded the powers of the federal government and insulated it from populist political pressures.

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i wish and need to be one of the Harvard University Law student! But how ....?

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This talk made me think of where the Constitution has not yet gone far enough in the provision of liberty. I heard mention of permitting retroactive changes of contract, and of certain individuals compelling legislators to vote in a certain way, under authority of legal threat. That enlightenment trend of egalitarianism, which saw the French Revolution as a high water mark, could use a renewal. As an aside, the contemporary perspectives on governmental democracy were taken from both sides of the Mediterranean; there was question as to what could be accomplished without a priestly class. I don't like the argument that simply having more people engaged in voting connotes more democracy; that interpretation equivocates democracy and populism.

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to win through power stimulates the sense of justice? play to win is how to get unhappy, winners, unhappy lossers. pleasure of winning passes, to lose throug injustice not. tensions closeing down the american mind? (you are affraid of the weekest you treat injust. fear and shame has nothung to do with power, only with justice. and fear and shame closes down the mind, betya?) 2(at the same time it incourages the weak to fight against the strong, cause loosing is no big shame for the weak, and it is easy to make the strong look injust for beating the weak. like when you slap your girl to make her happy cause she diserves it. you better make it look funny when in public, else you might get knocked out by the next securty guy that doesnt know what happend. where is that just? the 1 truth can look differnetly from different angles, but that does not change it, it comes just across differently.)