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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... Italy were absorbed in the first quarter of the third century ; northern Italy in the Gallic Wars of 225-222 . After this date , Roman hegemony in mainland Italy was complete . One of its by - products was an end to the warfare ...
... Italy to include the whole of the Mediterranean world . The main threat to Roman dominance of Italy was Carthage , a great mili- tary , naval , and trading city situated on the southern shore of the Mediter- ranean near the site of the ...
... Italy in substantial numbers from at least as early as the eighth century , and with the Renaissance introduction of classical hu- manism , Italy attracted visitors who had historical and intellectual interests as well as the desire to ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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