A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Monday, February 13, 2017

WILL WE GET THROUGH THE TRUMP YEARS WITHOUT A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS?

Michael J. Klarman, The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution (New York: Oxford U. Press, 2016) ("[T]his book advances a view of the Founding that differs somewhat from those previously offered. Plainly, no single motive or explanatory variable can account for the making of the Constitution. However, experts will recognize that I have been especially drawn to the view, long advanced by others, that the Constitution was a conservative counterrevolution against what leading American statesmen regarded as the irresponsible economic measures enacted by a majority of state legislatures in the mid-1780s, which they diagnosed as a symptom of excessive democracy." Id. at x. From the book jacket: "Most Americans revere their Constitution yet know relatively little about its origins.").