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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... Religious Toleration and Civic Freedom 228 The Roles of Parliament 232 " Mixed Government " and the Countervailance Model 237 The Early Stuart Era 238 From the Civil War to the Revolution of 1688 264 The Provenance of English ...
... Religious Toleration and Civic Freedom 228 The Roles of Parliament 232 " Mixed Government " and the Countervailance Model 237 The Early Stuart Era 238 From the Civil War to the Revolution of 1688 264 The Provenance of English ...
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... religious institutions continue to be regarded as centers of moral authority , but the hegemonic dominion of the nation - state is uncontested . Until the middle of the twentieth century , the domain of government re- mained small ...
... religious institutions continue to be regarded as centers of moral authority , but the hegemonic dominion of the nation - state is uncontested . Until the middle of the twentieth century , the domain of government re- mained small ...
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... religious organizations , and a large array of nongovernmental public - policy research and advocacy institutions . These private institutions are centers of political power . Describing the state as having a monopoly of coercive ...
... religious organizations , and a large array of nongovernmental public - policy research and advocacy institutions . These private institutions are centers of political power . Describing the state as having a monopoly of coercive ...
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... religious , or cultural compositions . This is an important sub- ject , engaging the attention of practicing politicians as well as social scientists . " But I do not deal here with such pluralistic properties . Nor am I concerned ...
... religious , or cultural compositions . This is an important sub- ject , engaging the attention of practicing politicians as well as social scientists . " But I do not deal here with such pluralistic properties . Nor am I concerned ...
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... religious animosities of the period . J. H. Burns observes that the République was " a work of political propaganda as well as a theoretical inquiry . Bodin's polemical purpose was to vindicate royal authority and central power against ...
... religious animosities of the period . J. H. Burns observes that the République was " a work of political propaganda as well as a theoretical inquiry . Bodin's polemical purpose was to vindicate royal authority and central power against ...
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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.