ISBN: 9780674009776

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 pluralis… More...

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. New Textbooks>Trade Paperback>Current Affairs>Domestic Affairs>Domestic Affairs, Harvard University Press Core >1 >T<

ISBN: 9780674009776

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 pluralis… More...

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. | Controlling the State by Scott Gordon Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > History > Politics > Political Theory > Constitutions P10103, Scott Gordon<

ISBN: 9780674009776

Paperback, [PU: Harvard University Press], Gordon explores the main venues of constitutional practice in ancient Athens, Republican Rome, Renaissance Venice, the Dutch Republic, seventeen… More...

Paperback, [PU: Harvard University Press], Gordon explores the main venues of constitutional practice in ancient Athens, Republican Rome, Renaissance Venice, the Dutch Republic, seventeenth-century England, and eighteenth-century America-and describes how constitutionalism has developed since then into the modern concept of constitutional democracy., General & World History<

2002, ISBN: 9780674009776

Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today, Buch, Softcover, [PU: Harvard University Press], Harvard University Press, 2002

ISBN: 9780674009776

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