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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... Venice was again in control of most of its mainland territories ( Lane , 1973 , 242f . ) . By the early seventeenth century , Venice and the Papal States were the only political entities in Italy that had not become vassals of France or ...
... Venice " refers to the conception of Venice as an ideal republic that in itself influenced Western political theory and constitutional development.2 23 The notion that Venice represented a model to be admired and emulated can be traced ...
... Venice other topics were frequently added : the city - state's ambience of civic liberty and its unusual form of government . English admiration for Venice was increased by the republic's remarkable recovery after it had been almost ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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