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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... independent center of power that could act as a check upon both the Crown and Parliament . At the beginning of the Stuart era , the Crown's authority over the judicial system remained unchallenged . The king appointed all superior court ...
... independent political authority . It is striking how frequently the Parlia- mentary documents of the early Stuart period ( including the Protestation of 1621 and the Petition of Right of 1628 ) referred to the ancient constitution of ...
... independent center of political power , one among the many such centers that constitute its pluralist polity.34 With respect to public law , the primary and indispensable task of the courts is to apply to particular cases the general ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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