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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... Countervailance Theory in Seventeenth - Century England 223 Religious Toleration and Civic Freedom 228 The Roles of Parliament 232 " Mixed Government " and the Countervailance Model 237 The Early Stuart Era 238 From the Civil War to the ...
... countervailance model of the state , or a sustained empirical examination of Dutch government in terms of such a conception . On this matter , the most interesting idea contained in the lit- erature is the view that while the common ...
... Countervailance Theory Literate seventeenth - century Englishmen would have been knowledgeable about the long - defunct countervailance polities of Periclean Athens and Re- publican Rome . The standard curriculum of English education at ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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