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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... Dutch and English scientists were especially close , from early in the seventeenth century . The Royal Society , founded in London in 1660 for the promotion of science , was a latecomer by Dutch standards , but several Dutch scientists ...
... Dutch School emerged that became second only to the Renaissance contri- butions of northern Italy in the artistic development of the modern West . In their treatments of the Dutch School , comprehensive modern surveys of the history of ...
... Dutch historians echo Temple's appraisal ( e.g. , Price , 1994 , 149 ; Speck , 1995 , 174 ) . As a nation - state , the Dutch Republic derived from an alliance of independent provinces that was formed for the purpose of fighting the ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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