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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... specific matters , popular demand is persis- tently for more government action rather than less . This demand is surprising , but it is not incomprehensible . The state ( in some parts of the world at least ) is not what it was even ...
... Specific statements of civic rights that were not to be infringed by government were contained in most of the state constitutions , and the inclu- sion of a similar statement in the proposed national Constitution was strongly urged at ...
... specific bill in the House of Commons . Pressure groups may also try to achieve their aims by initiating legal proceedings in the courts , but this strategy is inhibited by rules of “ legal standing " that are more restrictive in ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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