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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... House of Lords , had elevated the House of Commons to supreme authority in the state . The prime minister and the members of the Cabinet , he notes , are drawn from occupants of seats in Parliament , and they retain their offices only ...
... house of Peers , and by a house of Commons , chosen by the People . . . It is the Priviledges of the two Houses of Parliament that makes the mixture , and so they must Regulate and Interpret the Priviledges of the King , and not the ...
... House of Commons must be a legislative organ , for it is clearly not an executive nor a judicial one . Moreover , theories of " representative government , " including the " public choice " theory of the state that has been widely ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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