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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... become continuing cen- ters of organized power . For the Assembly that goes almost without saying— unless we ... becoming such a power center . The Prytanes — the standing committees of the Council - had the minimum requisite of small ...
... become rich ; and nobles , through misfortune or fecklessness , could become poor . In the sixteenth century , which will be the main focus of our exami- nation of the Venetian political system , most of the patrician families lived in ...
... become a distinct theme in the historiography of early modern constitutionalism . Ven- ice was greatly admired in northern Europe , and nowhere was there more interest in its system of government than in England , where it had become 65 ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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