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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... described here was the culmination of a series of constitutional changes that took place over a long period , in piece- meal response to contemporary problems . Solon , Kleisthenes , and Ephialtes must have had some rudiments of ...
... ( described later ) precluded this . Instead , it resulted in intense political infighting among the leading families anxious to move their scions up the ladder . The violence , intimidation , and bribery caused by these rivalries ...
... described by Tac- itus " ( 1940 , 43 ) . It finally met its demise as one of the many casualties of World War I. 46. The other pillar was that because the House of Commons was elected , it represented " the people , " a proposition that ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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