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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... Towns Though increased urbanization of the Dutch population was a notable feature of the republican period , most of the towns existed before the Revolt , and many had histories that went back well into medieval times.38 Dutch urban ...
... towns . In Holland , the largest of the provinces , there were eighteen such towns . In addition , the Holland nobility as a whole had one vote . In Zeeland there were six voting towns plus one vote for the nobility . A town could ...
... towns . Until well into the eigh- teenth century , the liberties that Dutch writers spoke of were connected in their consciousness with the independence of the towns , not with the Neth- erlands as a whole or with the northern seven ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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