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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... majority rule as a pragmatic device of collective decision - making . This highlights the problem of minorities who do not share the values , interests , or interpretations of the majority . Moreover , every member of a political order ...
... majority . What , then , of minorities ? Have they no legitimate claim to protection from the will of the majority ? If they have , how can they be effectively protected in a political system based upon popular sovereignty ? At the time ...
... majority rule procedure of the Athe- nian assembly exposed the individual citizen and minority groups to the co- ercion of a tyrannous state . This observation is commonly disregarded by writers who regard Periclean Athens as the ideal ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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