Creditors and debtors, city dwellers and backcountry farmers, northerners and southerners-all had competing interests and fought for them with the weapons of ordinary politics, such as the disparaging of adversaries' motives, character assassination, and even threats of violence. Second, the Constitution was more a product of ordinary political struggle than of disinterested political philosophizing. The Philadelphia convention almost did not take place once assembled, it nearly failed and the Constitution it produced almost went unratified. Three principal themes characterize Klarman's narrative. Klarman's narrative features colorful characters and riveting stories, such as the rebellion by debtor farmers in Massachusetts that contributed enormously to the Constitution's creation, George Washington's agonized deliberations over whether to attend the Philadelphia convention, Patrick Henry's demagogic efforts to defeat ratification in Virginia, and the political machinations of Alexander Hamilton and John Jay at the New York ratifying convention that produced an improbable victory for ratification. Klarman's The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution fills that void. Based on prodigious research and told largely through participants' voices, Michael J. Indeed, until now, nobody has written a comprehensive history of the Constitution's making. Most Americans revere their Constitution yet know relatively little about its origins.
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