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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... colonial rule seems to have been sufficient to establish constitutionalism as a widely ac- cepted political ideology . That ideology has not proved to be nearly so robust in regions that were colonies of France , Spain , or even the ...
... colonial possessions in America began to develop in the mid - eighteenth cen- tury , those colonies had existed as political entities for a long time , some of them for more than a century . A prominent theme in recent American his ...
... colonial policy initiated by passage of the Stamp Act in 1765 . It is a curiosity of history that while England had no written constitution , all of her colonies in America did . But the similarities between the institutional forms of ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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