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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... provinces regarded Philip's policies as negatively as did Protestants . As early as December 1564 , William of Orange , an official representative of the king as stadholder in three of the provinces , declared in the Council of State ...
... provinces south of the rivers , but the seven northern ones won their independence . The Adoption of Republicanism The Dutch did not undertake to establish a new constitution . The political system that emerged consisted almost entirely ...
... provinces . He harbored monarchical ambitions and sought to strengthen the role of the House of Orange as a Dutch dynasty with hereditary claims to positions of state.32 But a direct challenge to the republican form of government did ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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