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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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Constitutional history, Authority, Liberty, Separation of powersShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today
September 15, 2002, Harvard University Press
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0674009770 9780674009776
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Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today
December 15, 1999, Harvard University Press
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0674169875 9780674169876
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"Numerous theories have been advanced to explain the nature of government by suggesting how it might have arisen out of a "state of nature" in which there was no social organization beyond that of the family."
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