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Controlling the State - Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today (Paperback, New edition)
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Controlling the State - Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today (Paperback, New edition)
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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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