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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... English Constitution may be inclined to wonder why it has not long since been consigned to the dustheap of works that viewed the democratic trend of English politics with undeserved alarm . Bagehot greatly admired the English system of ...
... English lower classes did not have the disastrous consequences that he feared . In fact , today the universal adult franchise is commonly taken to be an essential property ( and , unfor- tunately , by some as the only essential property ) ...
... English colony of New York . A century later , at the insistence of the American colonists , English forces attacked and took Louisburg and Quebec , thus completing the English dominance of the eastern seaboard of North America and ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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