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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... authority , or the administrator of health and safety regulations , may ask to be shown by what authority they are being charged , but they will then be referred not to a statute , but to a small passage in a large volume of regulations ...
... authority of the States General that Oldenbarnevelt and Grotius were arrested , and they were tried by a court constituted ad hoc by the States General . In his defense , Oldenbarnevelt contended that the trial was illegal because the ...
... authority of the monarch over the people . This authority was divided after the Deluge , when God gave supreme authority over their several families to the three sons of Noah . After a few generations , " true fatherhood " having become ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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