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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... Athenian citizens . Rich silver mines in southeast Attica , owned by the state and worked by slaves , provided the ... Athenian democracy . The centerpiece of the Athenian political system was the Assembly ( ekkle- sia ) .1 It normally ...
... Athenian government was not its method of determining state policy , but its use of the jury - court system as a means of controlling the exercise of power by state officials ... Athenian Democracy 75 The Theory of the Athenian Constitution.
... Athenian government was mediated by the institutional structure of the state . A theory of Athenian democracy , like that of any other polity , must be a theory of how its coercive authority is ... Athenian govern- Athenian Democracy 79.
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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