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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... dominant political , religious , and military au- thority , and it seems evident that Tarquin and his predecessors ... Dominance over the area of Latium was achieved in the early fifth century ; central and southern Italy were absorbed ...
... dominant political ideas seem to have been . The most significant single fact in this regard is that the Romans did not replace the Etruscan monarchy by a Latin one . The chief executive authority of the regime established by the new ...
... dominant urban entity in the province of Holland , and Holland was the dominant province in the Union , but the regents of Am- sterdam did not determine the public policy of the republic . The other towns of Holland recognized the ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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