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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... Representative gov- ernment is not " self - government " and does not dispense with the need to investigate the ... representatives ( 1989 , 49f . , 169 ) . Morgan errs in tracing the origin of pop- ular sovereignty to seventeenth ...
... representative , and 50 percent plus one of the representatives is sufficient to pass legislation , it is possible for a proposal to be enacted that would have received little more than 25 percent of the votes if it had been submitted ...
... Representative government is not simply a technical device that enables the political system of a small community to ... representatives are chosen , but they are also the means by which they may be dismissed . The significant election ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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