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Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today
Scott Gordon
Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today
Scott Gordon
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.
412 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 15, 2002 |
ISBN13 | 9780674009776 |
Publishers | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 412 |
Dimensions | 150 × 231 × 26 mm · 550 g |
Language | English |