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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... construed it as inherently de- noting that the power of the monarch was " limited " ( Laslett , 1949 , 279 ) . A clear statement of countervailance theory was contained in a document issued by Charles I himself . It was prepared by his ...
... construed themselves as among those embraced by it . The " Glorious Revolution " of 1688 was revered in the colonies as a climactic event in their own histories as much as it was in England . As many historians of the revolutionary ...
... construed them as its fundamental principles . Supported by the Bill of Rights and subsequent similar amendments , the courts have often accepted the duty of protecting the citizenry from unjust or excessive exercise of state power ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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