Controlling the State - Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Scott Gordon, Gordon Scott
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2002
• EAN: 9780674009776
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00977-6
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; England, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, Ancient Greece, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Netherlands, Politics & government, Ancient Rome, General and world history, North America (USA and Canada), BCE period – Protohistory, Constitution: government and the state, Constitutional and administrative law: general