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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... prince is law ) and Princeps legibus solutus est ( The prince is not bound by the law ) . Accursius , and others following him , contended that such seemingly plain assertions of absolute princely power , if considered within the body ...
... prince who violates God's Law and desolates His Church ? Who may resist , in what manner , and to what extent ? 3. May a prince who oppresses or devastates a commonwealth be resisted ; and to what extent , by whom , in what fashion ...
... prince , who is a mere mortal , is to be obeyed only conditionally ( 1969 , 142 ) .20 Any promise that is " against good custom and the law of nature ” is void , he declares . " And what , " he asks , “ is more at war with nature than ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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