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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... political analysis and the comparative study of political organization is ... system of the United States has no such locus , but he regarded it as ... political systems , but he did not regard them as unviable on that account - thereby ...
... 261 B.C. Athens permanently entered the ranks of the subject city - states with paltry politics , the victim of superior force " ( 1983 , 117 ) . by the few ( Hansen , 1991 , 90–94 ; 66 Controlling the State The Athenian Political System.
... political gov- ernment , this beautiful system was invented first in the woods " ( 1966 , 161 ) . As we have seen , this notion was employed by Sir Edward Coke and other early - seventeenth - century parliamentarians to support the view ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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