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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... Venetian government was created , and it lasted , without sig- nificant alteration , until the city fell to Napoleon in 1797. The description of the Venetian constitution that follows focuses on the sixteenth century be- cause that era ...
... Venetian politics . No fortified towers were erected ; no battles took place between feuding fam- ilies on its streets and waterways ; the Great Council did not divide into Guelph and Ghibelline parties . The Venetian aristocracy was ...
... Venetians and regarded their constitution as an inadequate model for a state that aimed at territorial ex- pansion , grudgingly admitted its success in achieving what he considered to be lesser objectives . But neither the Venetian ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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