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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... religion . The Holy See was not merely a religious authority but also a secular power , sharing territorial borders with Venice . For the Venetians , the pope was head of a foreign state , and his authority over their religious lives ...
... religious toleration , and the Counter - Remonstrants , who insisted that Calvinists were under a divine ob- ligation to destroy religious heresy in all of its forms . The liberal viewpoint was expressed as early as 1564 by William of ...
... religious statues and other items of church property that zealous Protestants regarded as idolatrous images . The ... religious conflict was a rebellion of Netherlanders at large against the governance of a foreign power that refused to ...
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Preface vii | 1 |
Athenian Democracy | 60 |
The Roman Republic | 86 |
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