Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to TodayHarvard University Press, 1999 - 412 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. |
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... Council of Constance ( 1414-1418 ) . This council , summoned at the insistence of the Holy Roman Emperor to deal with the problem of a church to which three persons were claiming papal authority , dispersed the power of the papacy in ...
... Council was between 1,000 and 1,400 ( Finlay , 1980 , 21 ) . The Great Council passed legislation , debated policy , and provided an opportunity for question- ing officials similar to Question Time in the modern British Parliament ...
... Council , by the drawing of balls from an urn , 30 members of the Council were selected , a further drawing reduced these to 9 who met to elect 40 men . This 40 was reduced by lot to 12 who proceeded to elect 25 , and so on until the ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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