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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... separation " in order to provide the several entities with suffi- cient independence to enable them to impose constraints upon each other . In all of the cases examined earlier , this was clearly the nature of their insti- tutional ...
... separation of powers . Gerhard Casper contends that the separation of powers embodied in the state constitutions has been given more significance than it deserves . In his view , these documents reflect the notion that there must be a ...
... separation of powers ( 1985 , 84 ) . The view that separation of powers is the central political theory of the American Constitution has been prominent in the literature to the present , especially so in that written by lawyers . In a ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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