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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... important of early modern political scientists , re- sponded to the social upheavals of sixteenth - century France by investigating " sovereignty , " that is , ultimate power , in terms of what was required to main- tain the order and ...
... important information is lacking , but enough has been brought to light by historians to enable one to address the main issue here : the mechanisms by which the power of the bureaucracy was controlled.23 From the description of the ...
... important sources quarried by historians for details on the Roman sys- tem of government . For our purposes , his most important works are two large books modeled , and named , after Plato's political dialogues . A large part of ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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