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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... called up for military service . The members of the lowest class , too poor to provide even the minimum of these necessities ( and , until the time of Marius exempt from such service ) , were not listed by name as the others were , but ...
... called for the purpose of voting upon a proposed legal enactment . The Assembly also met in other sessions called specifically for the purpose of voting upon candidates for the magisterial offices , the tribunate , and some minor ...
... called Parliament meetings almost every year , but he found the House of Commons unfriendly and uncooperative , determined to set its own agenda instead of dealing im- mediately with the matters that the king had placed before it . He ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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