Resumen de The Framers’ Compromise

Laurence Claus

• Michael Klarman argues in The Framers’ Coup that “[t]he compromises undertaken in Philadelphia . . . illustrate the extent to which the Constitution was a product of clashing interests rather than dispassionate political philosophizing.”1 Klarman’s history distinctively reaches beyond ratification of the United States Constitution to the compromises that delivered the Bill of Rights. And he does a particularly fine job of illuminating the subterranean interests that drove the compromises over accounting for slavery in the structure of the new system, showing where that institution lurked behind discourse and text that dared not speak its name. In the chapter he devotes to...