HLS in the World | The Framers' Coup: The Making of the U.S. Constitution

During this bicentennial summit session, Michael Klarman, Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School, discussed his recently published book, “The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution” (Oxford University Press, 2016), which describes how the framers at the Philadelphia convention managed to write a Constitution that was far more nationalizing and democracy-constraining than most Americans anticipated or wanted. Klarman examined why the Philadelphia convention was so unrepresentative of national opinion and how the framers were able to convince ordinary Americans to approve a scheme that drastically reduced their political influence on the national government. He is the author of several books, including ""From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality,"" which was awarded the 2005 Bancroft Prize in History, and ""From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage.""
His talk was part of the HLS in the World bicentennial summit which took place on Friday, October 27, 2017. Read more: 200.hls.harvard.edu.

[@JeffreyWallk]

Dr. Klarman's work should be a staple for any economic curricula. This "frames" our understanding of politics, policy, and how the US implemented Democracy all of which has contributed to the imbalances and inequities we are seeing play out in the US today. When you layer in Chomsky's explorations of how US policy has been extended to the rest of the world, we now have a more complete understanding of our current state of affairs.

[@patrickj.sobkowski2341]

Brilliant book. Brilliant lecture.

[@K4K96]

Absolutely blew the doors off of everything I was told to believe about the Ratification.

[@sanford943]

this would be a good video to show in classes about the constitution

[@rickpeuser233]

Brilliant man and brilliant historian.

[@_InfiniteZeal]

Great talk 👍🏻

[@davidochoa6472]

Excelent very important for me thank you

[@brainstormingsharing1309]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@samsussaintloth3423]

Klarman is an intellectual bank

[@dfnuniverse2198]

🖤💪🏽✅🤓

[@sanford943]

he didn't give a whole lot of time to q&a as he said he would.

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[@toonstierney1170]

George Mason was right. As Michael Malice said, "those who need to be ruled are incapable of chosing their rulers."

[@qarljohnson4971]

This comment is at root the source of modern Fascist ideologies. As professed by Leo Strauss and German fascist jurist Carl Schmidt.

[@toonstierney1170]

@@qarljohnson4971 oh no you called me an f word? You're a f word too

[@monso7871]

@@qarljohnson4971 this is true though. People tend to choose bad leaders. Their must be a balance between democracy and aristocracy. The people can easily be deceived. If i won educational institutions and the press I can deceive the people into electing leaders that serve my interest. At least in Geroge mason's ideal world one knows that the elite are to blame.