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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... ancient traditions . Hotman's historical research led him to conclude that the concept of the monarch as limited has long been enshrined in French tradition . In ancient times , monarchs did not succeed one another by hereditary right ...
... ancient constitution was a potent instrument of ar- gumentation for those who sought to diminish the power of the Crown and to increase that of Parliament . But if Coke's role had been merely to support the side of Parliament , his ...
... Ancient Society and its Institutions : Studies Presented to Victor Ehrenberg on his 75th Birthday . Ox- ford : Blackwell . 303-312 . 1972. Polybius . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Walsh , Correa Moylan . 1915. The Political ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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