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Genre/Form: | Book |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gordon, Scott, 1924- Controlling the state. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607366440 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Scott Gordon |
ISBN: | 0674169875 9780674169876 0674009770 9780674009776 |
OCLC Number: | 41266306 |
Awards: | Nominated for David and Elaine Spitz Prize 2001 Nominated for Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award 2001 |
Description: | x, 395 pages ; 25 cm |
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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