![]() ![]() ![]() The men who met in that sweltering Philadelphia summer of 1787 had no idea where they wanted to go from there: should they modify the shaky confederation already in place, or create a new republic form of government, against the odds of every legal scholar at the time? Conventional wisdom held that in no way would a republic work over such a large area, controlling such a large group of people. ![]() But in reality, nothing about the drafting and ratification of the US Constitution was guaranteed. Early supporters often treated the document as if it were inspired by a god, however. Klarman goes out of his way to demonstrate this in the introduction of his grand work The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution. No divine being handed the organization of the new government to the founders, blazoned on stone tablets. Many were landowners, and were prominent and influential among their colonial citizenry. Humans wrote the United States Constitution. Reviewed by Gregory Richard (Winona State University)Ĭommissioned by Kate Brown (Huntington University) The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution. ![]()
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