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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... later rejected this label when , in the mid 1930s , he became a committed Marxist , but this conversion did not lead him to modify any of the strong criticisms he had made of sovereignty as a positive or normative concept.46 The basic ...
... later viewed themselves as having always lived under a government that derived its authority from the citizenry ( Lane , 1966 , 287 ) . Contarini notes that the first doges were elected by " a general cry and acclamation of the people ...
... later fifteenth century was enor- mous.62 It became especially popular in the Netherlands with the onset of the ... later by John Milton , John Locke , and J. S. Mill . 62. Blair Worden writes of " the rage of Tacitism in the Europe of ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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