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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... practice rather than discrete alterations in the institutional struc- ture of Athenian government . Their effect was to reduce still further the power of the Archons and the political role of the Areopagus , through which the exclusive ...
... practice and " public opinion " and , more specifically , by the institutional structure of the political system itself . The governmental organization of Venice was very complex . It would be nearly impossible to describe all of its ...
... practice only the richer citizens actually served ( Prak , 1991 , 84 ; Rowen , 1988 , 47 ; Price , 1994 , 93f . ) . Being an officer in a civic guard company was valued highly as a mark of prestige , and the various com- panies ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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