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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... attention of practicing politicians as well as social scientists . But I do not deal here with such pluralistic properties . Nor am I concerned directly with socioeconomic class differences , though these are also important in ...
... attention on the machinery of government rather than its philosophical and theological foundations , which had been the absorbing interest of medieval thinkers . Moreover , even if Contarini , Giannotti , Guic- ciardini , and Paruta had ...
... attention in the literature on constitutional reform , most notably the security services and the Bank of England.25 Attention has now come mainly to bear upon a class of administrative bodies generically entitled " quasi - autonomous ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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