Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to TodayHarvard University Press, 1999 - 412 páginas This book examines the development of the theory and practice of constitutionalism, defined as a political system in which the coercive power of the state is controlled through a pluralistic distribution of political power. It explores the main venues of constitutional practice in ancient Athens, Republican Rome, Renaissance Venice, the Dutch Republic, seventeenth-century England, and eighteenth-century America. |
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... Assembly , from among the general panel of law - court jurors . Its size was invariably large , on one occasion numbering 1,000 ( Ostwald , 1986 , 521 ; Hansen , 1991 , 161f . , 362 ) . The political authority of the Assembly was ...
... ASSEMBLIES . Up to this point , I have referred to " the Assembly " in the singular , but in fact there were three assemblies that all adult male Roman citizens were entitled to attend , all of which had important govern- mental ...
... Assembly was the oldest of the popular assemblies and was derived from a military organization dating back to the monarchical period . When the Republic was established , it elected the first consuls ( Taylor , 1966 , 5 ) . Until the ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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