Crisis and Constitutionalism - Roman Political Thought From Fall of Republic to Age of Revolution

The crisis and fall of the Roman Republic spawned a tradition of political thought that sought to evade the Republic's fate-despotism. Thinkers from Cicero to Bodin, Montesquieu, and the American Founders saw constitutionalism, not virtue, as the remedy. This study traces Roman constitutional thought from antiquity to the Revolutionary Era.

About the author

Benjamin Straumann is Alberico Gentili Senior Fellow at New York University School of Law and Lecturer at the University of Zurich. He is the author of Roman Law in the State of Nature and co-editor of the book series The History and Theory of International Law.

Summary

The crisis and fall of the Roman Republic spawned a tradition of political thought that sought to evade the Republic's fate--despotism. Thinkers from Cicero to Bodin, Montesquieu, and the American Founders saw constitutionalism, not virtue, as the remedy. This study traces Roman constitutional thought from antiquity to the Revolutionary Era.

Additional text

Crisis and Constitutionalism is a brilliantly original and erudite argument in favor of the distinctiveness and long-term importance of Roman constitutional thought from Cicero to the American Founders, which demonstrates just how much Western political and legal thought, on both sides of the Atlantic, has owed, and still owes, to ancient Rome. It is controversial, highly compelling, and of very real contemporary significance.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Straumann, Benjamin ( Alberico Gentili Fellow Straumann, Benjamin (Alberico Gentili Fellow Straumann, Straumann Benjamin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780190879532
• ISBN: 978-0-19-087953-2
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Constitutional, Ancient Rome, Legal History, Ancient History, Political science and theory, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Constitution: government & the state, European history: the Romans, Constitution: government and the state, Constitution, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general