The Democratic Constitution Podcast: Michael Klarman on the Constitution's Origins and Contemporary Problems

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Luke talks with Michael Klarman, an American historian and constitutional scholar who has written several books, including From Jim Crow to Civil Rights (2004) and The Framers’ Coup (2016). Klarman covers many topics, including the political interests involved in the drafting of the Constitution, differences between the more democratic state constitutions and the eventual federal Constitution, the Seventh Amendment and “self-legalization,” current efforts to change the Supreme Court, violations of the principle of one person, one vote, and what it’s like to teach constitutional law and history in our contemporary moment.