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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... serve to protect the citi- zenry from the undue exercise of governmental power . Others contended that the inclusion ... serves to constrain the state is subject to doubt . If one takes the view that a center of power can be con- trolled ...
... serve as the agents of the state's coercive power , while on the other , they protect the citizenry from it . As we saw in examining the political system of classical Athens , its jury courts had great independent power , which they ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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