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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... concept of power remains impre- cise and ambiguous . The Encyclopedia of Philosophy contains only a brief ar- ticle on " Power " ( Benn , 1967 ) , the chief import of which is that the concept is subject to severe difficulties of ...
... concept of sovereignty , which prey upon it " ( 1951 , 12-23 ) . Maritain opens the following chapter , " On Sovereignty , " by observing that " no concept has raised so many conflicting issues and involved nineteenth Century jurists ...
... concept of sovereignty is unserviceable to political science , 48 but so far as I know , no one has developed a critique of it that goes beyond what one finds in Sidgwick , Laski , and Maritain . Other writers have come to its defense ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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