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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... citizens , and pretended that their aim was the traditional constitution . . . But when they had firmer hold on the city they left none of the citizens alone , but put to death those who were outstanding in their wealth , birth or ...
... citizens belonging to the topmost plebeian class , the equites , eighty to the next property class on the census rolls ; and the remainder distributed among the other classes . The unpropertied class , the " head - count , " were ...
... citizens were formally obligated to enroll in a militia company , but each per- son was required to supply his own equipment and contribute to the com- pany's finances . In practice only the richer citizens actually served ( Prak , 1991 ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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