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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... Rome acquired its empire and established an effective system to maintain and exploit it . My main object here , however , is not to explain how Rome could rule such a vast territory , but to examine the institutional machinery of the ...
... Rome was not innovative in establishing a republican form of government . At the time of Tarquin's deposition , there were hundreds of city - republics in the Mediterranean basin , but over the next three centuries all of them suc ...
... Rome . Only the technique of rep- resentation could have enabled the allied communities of Italy to participate in the political system , but no such process developed in the Roman Republic . In terms of constitutional structure and ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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