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Controlling the State
Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today
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English
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1999
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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.
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While not defending any particular version of constitutionalism as best, Gordon argues persuasively that some form of constitutional government is necessary for both prosperity and the preservation of individual liberty.
-- R. Hudelson Choice
-- R. Hudelson Choice
An unusually sweeping book...[Gordon] provides a...concise and accessible introduction to the history of constitutional government ... Particularly valuable for its distinctive emphasis on countervailing power as the cornerstone of constitutional governance and its broad survey of the practice and idea of constitutionalism over the course of Western history.
-- Keith E. Whittington Law and Politics Book Review
-- Keith E. Whittington Law and Politics Book Review
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Introduction
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1 The Doctrine of Sovereignty
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2 Athenian Democracy
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3 The Roman Republic
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4 Countervailance Theory in Medieval Law, Catholic Ecclesiology, and Huguenot Political Theory
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5 The Republic of Venice
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6 The Dutch Republic
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7 The Development of Constitutional Government and Countervailance Theory in Seventeenth-Century England
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8 American Constitutionalism
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9 Modern Britain
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Epilogue
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References
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Index
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