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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... nature , must be absolute and indivisible . Hobbes's argument is very different : sov- ereign authority is viewed as a pragmatic necessity . Without it , the terrible evils of the state of nature cannot be overcome . All self ...
... nature ” is void , he declares . " And what , " he asks , “ is more at war with nature than for a people to promise a prince that it will put chains and fetters on itself , will put its throat beneath the knife , and will do violence to ...
... nature of their insti- tutional structures . It is also the nature of separation of powers that one finds in Montesquieu's analysis of the English constitution , and in his view of what is necessary in any state , republican or ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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