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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... claim that it did has recently been made by Panagopoulos ( 1985 , ch . 1 ) . He construes Plato , Aristotle , and other writers of classical Greece as having a clear conception of mikte as an institutional structure that , by mirroring ...
... claim that it was designed for such a purpose . On the contrary , the internal gov- ernment of the Republic appears to contravene all the basic rules of efficient administration . The highest office in the republican system , the ...
... claim to temporal power - a claim that became more insistent and more comprehen- sive in the latter half of the sixteenth century . The invasion of Italy by Spain , in its assumed role as the arm of the true faith , added greatly to the ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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