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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... continued to exist , but a new Council of Five Hundred was created , which served as an organizing com- mittee to prepare the agenda for meetings of the Assembly , which all citizens were entitled to attend . There were nine senior ...
... continued to exist as a distinct social class , numbering some 200 families , and though their political power was greatly inferior to that of the merchants , it was not altogether negligible ( Griffiths , 1959–1960 , 453 ; De Vries ...
... continued to develop , in contemporary England . Thus England was argued to have a tangible consti- tution , embodied in the judgments of the common law courts . With the abandonment of the royal prerogative courts , and the development ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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