Format:
Online-Ressource (412 p)
ISBN:
9780674009776
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Doctrine of Sovereignty -- The Classical Doctrine of Sovereignty -- The People as Sovereign -- Parliament as Sovereign -- Critics of Sovereignty -- 2 Athenian Democracy -- Constitutional Development -- The Athenian Political System -- The Theory of the Athenian Constitution -- The Doctrine of Mixed Government -- The Constitutional Totalitarianism of Sparta -- 3 The Roman Republic -- The Development of the Republic, and Its Fall -- The Political System of the Republic -- Theoretical Interpretation of the Republican System -- 4 Countervailance Theory in Medieval Law, Catholic Ecclesiology, and Huguenot Political Theory -- Canon Law and Roman Law -- Catholic Ecclesiology and the Conciliar Movement -- The Huguenot Political Theorists -- 5 The Republic of Venice -- Venice and Europe -- The Venetian System of Government -- Venetian Constitutionalism -- Church and State -- The Myth of Venice -- Venice, Mixed Government, and Jean Bodin -- 6 The Dutch Republic -- The Golden Age of the Dutch Republic -- The Political History of the Republic, 1566-1814 -- The Republican Political System -- Dutch Political Theory -- 7 The Development of Constitutional Government and Countervailance Theory in Seventeenth-Century England -- Religious Toleration and Civic Freedom -- The Roles of Parliament -- "Mixed Government" and the Countervailance Model -- The Early Stuart Era -- From the Civil War to the Revolution of 1688 -- The Provenance of English Countervailance Theory -- The Eighteenth Century, and Montesquieu -- 8 American Constitutionalism -- The Political Theory of the American Revolution -- The State Constitutions -- The National Constitution -- The Bill of Rights and the Judiciary -- A Note on Provenance -- 9 Modern Britain -- Archaic Remnants: The Monarchy and the House of Lords -- The House of Commons and the Cabinet.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674037830
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674009776
Additional Edition:
Print version Controlling the State : Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today
Language:
English
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