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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... structure of the state . A theory of Athenian democracy , like that of any other polity , must be a theory of how its coercive authority is effectuated through its established political institutions . Ostwald construes the Nomothetai as ...
... structure and the belief that the topmost class in that structure possessed , by virtue of long - standing tradition , unchallengeable authority in large matters of state . The composition of the Senate changed during the course of the ...
... structure that was designed to translate those principles into practice . The originality , or otherwise , of the ... structural frame of American governmental institutions has been copied by few . Great Britain is now a secondary world ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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