The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution

In commemoration of Constitution Day, constitutional law and history professor Michael J. Klarman of Harvard Law School discussed his book, a comprehensive history of how the framers drafted and ratified the U.S. Constitution despite their clashing interests.
Speaker Biography: Michael J. Klarman is the Kirkland and Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and scholarship, which are primarily in the areas of constitutional law and constitutional history. In 2009, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Klarman's first book, "From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality," received the 2005 Bancroft Prize in history. He is also the author of "Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement," "Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History" and "From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage."
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