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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... regarded sovereignty as a political doctrine , while Dicey contended that it is essentially a legal one . This ... regarded as the authoritative constitutional account for the golden age of parliamentary government between 1832 and 1867 ...
... regarded as idolatrous images . The town authorities , who were mainly Catholic , did little to restrain the mobs , however , and in some places , assisted them in the destruction and effacement of church property ( Gelderen , 1992 , 82 ...
... regarded as not only lawmaking bodies , but also as groups of elected representatives who had the duty of protecting the citizenry from any arbitrary exercise of power by the governor and his officials . The liberty of the citizen was a ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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