Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to TodayHarvard University Press, 30/06/2009 - 407 من الصفحات 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. From its beginning in Polybius' interpretation of the classical concept of mixed government, the author traces the theory of constitutionalism through its late medieval appearance in the Conciliar Movement of church reform and in the Huguenot defense of minority rights. After noting its suppression with the emergence of the nation-state and the Bodinian doctrine of sovereignty, the author describes how constitutionalism was revived in the English conflict between king and Parliament in the early Stuart era, and how it has developed since then into the modern concept of constitutional democracy. |
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... Historians have discovered expressions of the idea that the state is founded upon a contract as far back as Thucydides ( Ostwald , 1986 , 111 ; on the history of contract theory , see Gough , 1957 ; Lessnoff , 1986 and 1990 ) . The most ...
... Historians have discovered expressions of the idea that the state is founded upon a contract as far back as Thucydides ( Ostwald , 1986 , 111 ; on the history of contract theory , see Gough , 1957 ; Lessnoff , 1986 and 1990 ) . The most ...
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... historian Gasparo Contarini attributed the success of the Venetian political system to the fact that , unlike other states , its government was based " on laws , not men " ( Bouwsma , 1968 , 149f . ) . In the mid - eighteenth century ...
... historian Gasparo Contarini attributed the success of the Venetian political system to the fact that , unlike other states , its government was based " on laws , not men " ( Bouwsma , 1968 , 149f . ) . In the mid - eighteenth century ...
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... historian of political thought might well be more inclined to name Jean - Jacques Rousseau as the important early figure to develop the modern presentation of the concept of democracy . Rousseau joined the notion of democracy to the ...
... historian of political thought might well be more inclined to name Jean - Jacques Rousseau as the important early figure to develop the modern presentation of the concept of democracy . Rousseau joined the notion of democracy to the ...
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... historian of the subject puts it : “ Revolutionary in its origins , the theory of popular sovereignty was destined in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to become the only widely accepted basis of political legitimacy ...
... historian of the subject puts it : “ Revolutionary in its origins , the theory of popular sovereignty was destined in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to become the only widely accepted basis of political legitimacy ...
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... historians as a prototypical defender of absolute power . In his Trew Law of Free Monarchies , James acknowledged that a mon- arch has a duty toward his subjects . He is not authorized to behave capri- ciously , willfully , or selfishly ...
... historians as a prototypical defender of absolute power . In his Trew Law of Free Monarchies , James acknowledged that a mon- arch has a duty toward his subjects . He is not authorized to behave capri- ciously , willfully , or selfishly ...
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2 Athenian Democracy | 60 |
3 The Roman Republic | 86 |
4 Countervailance Theory in Medieval Law Catholic Ecclesiology and Huguenot Political Theory | 116 |
5 The Republic of Venice | 129 |
6 The Dutch Republic | 166 |
7 The Development of Constitutional Government and Countervailance Theory in SeventeenthCentury England | 223 |
8 American Constitutionalism | 284 |
9 Modern Britain | 327 |
Epilogue | 358 |
References | 363 |
Index | 387 |
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الصفحة 311 - The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society ; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.
الصفحة 313 - By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
الصفحة 9 - Power" (Macht) is the probability that one actor within a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance, regardless of the basis on which this probability rests.
الصفحة 313 - Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents.
الصفحة 30 - That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.
الصفحة iv - In all governments, there is a perpetual intestine struggle, open or secret, between AUTHORITY and LIBERTY; and neither of them can ever absolutely prevail in the contest. A great sacrifice of liberty must necessarily be made in every government; yet even the authority, which confines liberty, can never, and perhaps ought never, in any constitution, to become quite entire and uncontrollable.
الصفحة 289 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone.
الصفحة 10 - Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert. Power is never the property of an individual; it belongs to a group and remains in existence only so long as the group keeps together. When we say of somebody that he is 'in power' we actually refer to his being empowered by a certain number of people to act in their name.