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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... king ( 1969 , 57-59 ) . Writing about the deposition of the first king of Francogallia in 469 , he observes that " this glorious and remarkable deed of our forefathers is all the more carefully to be noted in that it came at the ...
... king ) and upon the analogical contentions that a king is to the people as a father is to his children , or as an individual's head is to his body ( 1918 , 57 , 65 ) . From these propositions it follows directly , or so James contends ...
... king ] , " and that the king is " accountable to the Law , and not to God only , as men would make us believe . " This " Excellent Constitution " was created by " the Experience and Wisdom of your Ancestors , " and rests upon the ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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