Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today

by Scott Gordon

Book Overview

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'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674009770
• ISBN13: 9780674009776
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 9.1"