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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... mixed government ( see , e.g. , Fink , 1940 and 1945 ; Haitsma Mulier , 1980 ; Lindenbaum , 1991 ) .34 The concept of mixed government makes no appearance today in the lit- erature of political science . The notion that the political ...
... Mixed Government The idea that the union was a " mixed " political system was suggested by many writers during the republican era . Baruch Spinoza , Johannes Althusius , Johan de Witt , and numerous others depicted , and defended , the ...
... mixed govern- ment as a viable concept of the state , can we today make use of it in attempting to understand the Dutch Republic and account for its remarkable contribu- tions to Western civilization ? We saw in our examination of the ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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