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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... church . Whichever , or whatever , argument served as support , Venice's view of the church was that it was sub- ordinate to the state . This was evident in the Venetian constitution and po- litical practice . Brian Pullan refers to ...
... church . The Council of Trent , convened in 1545 to consider the threat of Protestantism , rejected the contention of reformers that the church must cleanse itself in order to per- form its holy mission . Thomas Aquinas's view that the ...
... Church of England , thus officially uniting church and state . In Catholic countries , political power was shared between the secular monarch and the church authorities , who owed their appointments , and their primary alle- giances ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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