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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... rule of law " is not the same thing as that of “ a gov- ernment of laws and not of men , " though the two are often conflated . The first of these ideas refers to the proposition that laws enacted by lawmaking authorities should apply ...
... rule as a pragmatic device of collective decision - making . This highlights the problem of minorities who do not share the values , interests , or interpretations of the majority . Moreover , every member of a political order is almost ...
... rule of law , ' or the supremacy , through- out all our institutions of the ordinary law of the land . . . which means at bottom the right of the courts to punish any illegal act by whomsoever com- mitted " ( 1960 , 470f . ) . Dicey ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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