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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... appears therefore that , in Dicey's view , the law and the conventions do not share equal status as elements of the ... appear to have perceived any conceptual conflict between these two sovereignties . From the first appearance of ...
... appear in the Dutch republican literature . Two of these , which were quite independent of the demand for religious liberty ... appears in the early Dutch literature ( Gelderen , 1992 , 228 ) . In contrast to the utilitarian defense of ...
... appears . See , e.g. , nos . 48 , 51 , 71. Hamilton does not elaborate upon the basic idea , as Madison did , but he appears to have embraced it . John Jay , however , seems to have taken a more tra- ditional view , stressing the ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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