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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... means that were operative in Athens . In short , we may construe Athens as a participatory democracy , but this does not supply us with a theory of politics that can be generalized . By contrast , the countervailance theory of power ...
... means ) ? " ( 185 ) . Clearly , therefore , in making the compact with the prince , the people permanently reserve ... mean re- bellion ; each of the lesser magistrates , within his own sphere of jurisdiction , is obligated " on his own ...
... means by which representatives are chosen , but they are also the means by which they may be dismissed . The significant election is not the one that has most recently been held , but the one that is soonest to come . In effect ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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