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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... Period demonstrated that a nation did not need a monarch , or even a quasi - monarch , in order to be stable and prosperous . Renaissance Venice had shown that a city - state could be a republic , but not until the First Stadholderless ...
... Period . Like the First Stadholderless Period , the Second was brought to an end by a foreign threat to the republic's independence . France invaded the Nether- lands again in 1747 , the Orangist party won popular support for its conten ...
... period . If the members of the House of Commons had had no objection to the policies of the king , they would have had little reason to insist upon an enlargement of the powers of Parliament at the expense of the prerogative authority ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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