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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Gordon, Scott, 1924- Controlling the state. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c1999 (DLC) 99030812 (OCoLC)41266306 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Scott Gordon |
ISBN: | 9780674037830 0674037839 |
OCLC Number: | 649686721 |
Language Note: | English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Awards: | Nominated for David and Elaine Spitz Prize 2001 Nominated for Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award 2001 Winner of AAP/Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards: Government and Political Science 1999 |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 395 pages) |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | 1. The doctrine of sovereignty -- 2. Athenian democracy -- 3. The Roman republic -- 4. Countervailance theory in medieval law, Catholic ecclesiology, and Huguenot political theory -- 5. The Republic of Venice -- 6. The Dutch republic -- 7. The development of constitutional government and countervailance theory in seventeenth-century England -- 8. American constitutionalism -- 9. Modern Britain. |
Responsibility: | Scott Gordon. |
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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 * 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 * Read more...


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