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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... effect he employs Bodin's propo- sition that there is a seat of sovereignty in every state to argue that , from the constitutional standpoint , Athens was a significantly different polity after the end of the Peloponnesian War and the ...
... effect , established test criteria for the invalidation of administrative decisions . In a 1984 case , Lord Diplock summarized these criteria under three general head- ings : " illegality , " " procedural impropriety , " and ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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