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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... Europe , bringing Greece , Bulgaria , and Hungary under Ottoman do- minion . Constantinople fell in 1453 , and the Turkish landward threat to western Europe was not definitively contained until the Battle of Vienna in 1638. Meanwhile ...
... Europe . The " myth of Venice❞ — its reputation as a model republic - disappeared from the European political literature and was replaced by an " anti - myth " that rep- resented the republic as not only backward , but also decadent ...
... Europe as the proper medium of sophis- ticated conversation . French literature was unrivaled in popularity . The Co- médie Française , subsidized by the state and nourished by the genius of Molière , became the paragon theater of Europe ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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