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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... became one of the richest and most powerful cities of Italy ( Heichelheim et al . , 1984 , 23f . , 33 ; Scullard , 1992 , 62 ) . The king was the dominant political , religious , and military au- thority , and it seems evident that ...
... became attached to it.12 Perhaps the greatest disservice it did to the Venetian constitution was that it became a very conservative organization , opposing any change in the structure and practices of Venetian government , thereby ...
... became , and remains , its political policy . The Thirty Years ' War of 1618-1648 determined the division of Europe between Catholicism and Protestantism , but it was the Venetian victory in the Interdict dispute that foreshadowed what ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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