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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... role in lawmaking is indisputable , and even when Jean Bodin was writing the Répub- lique , the power to make laws , which he regarded as the fundamental mark of " sovereignty , " was pluralist across the Channel . But Parliament played ...
... role.43 In the 1621 and subsequent Parliaments , he played a leading role in the attack on the royal grant of monopoly privileges , the drafting of the Petition of Grievances in 1624 and the Petition of Right in 1628 , the demand that ...
... role . Elections are the means by which representatives are chosen , but they are also the means by which they may be dismissed . The significant election is not the one that has most recently been held , but the one that is soonest to ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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