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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... Roman government that led to the downfall of the Republic.13 The political system that had helped Rome become master of Italy , defeat Carthage , and appropriate a vast overseas empire no longer seemed capable of providing the means for ...
... Roman domination . The " Jugurthan War " was incompetently conducted and dragged on without resolution until , in 107 , Marius was elected consul by the Assembly , in defiance of the Senate , and given command of the Roman legions in ...
... Roman law taken as a whole , must be construed to mean that the prince is obligated to respect the established laws and customs of the com- munity . The prince was unlimited in the sense that there was no superior magistrate that could ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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