The Cunning of Reason: Michael Klarman’s The Framers’ Coup

Charles Fried*

A review of Michael J. Klarman, The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution.

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*Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. I thank my colleagues Annette Gordon-Reed, Kenneth Mack, Bruce Mann, and John Manning for comments and suggestions and Samantha Miller of the Harvard Law School class of 2019 for research assistance.


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