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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... early interest of com- munities strategically situated to exploit them . The herring fishery of Holland and Zeeland grew into a large industry ; at the beginning of the seventeenth century , 450 boats were engaged in it , and 80 percent ...
... early years of the republic.61 In such terms , Dutch political theorists , and even some theologians , de- fended intellectual freedom on utilitarian grounds . But other arguments in defense of personal freedom also appear in the Dutch ...
... early seventeenth - century England ( see Chapter 5 ; Perkinson , 1940 , 13 ; Pullan , 1974 , 449f . ) . 67 66. According to Muir , the earliest English book on Italy appeared in the early fourteenth century , but Thomas's Historie ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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