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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... referred to in the scholarly literature on political theory . In this domain , Bagehot retains the interest of only a small band of uncritical admirers , and the occasional commentator who re- gards the American system of government as ...
... referred to the defined sphere of a magistrate's authority to act in the name of the state , his imperium . As Rome's hegemony extended , it came to mean a geographic territory , i.e. , an overseas dependency ( see Scullard , 1992 , 182 ) ...
... referred to a variety of rights that the towns had acquired as dispensations from their political masters . Some of these privileges had histories that stretched back to medieval times ; some were even embodied in formal documents that ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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