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Crisis and constitutionalism : Roman political thought from the fall of the republic to the age of revolution /

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Main Author: Straumann, Benjamin (Author)
Corporate Author: UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Constitutional history > Philosophy.
Constitutional history > Rome.
Political science > Philosophy.
Republicanism > History.
Roman law > Influence.
Rome > Politics and government > 265-30 B.C.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of constitutional thought
  • Part I: Inchoate constitutionalism in the late Roman Republic
  • 1. "Not some piece of legislation" : the Roman concept of constitution
  • 2. Infinite Power? : emergencies and extraordinary powers in constitutional argument
  • 3. "The sole bulwark of liberty" : constitutional rights at Rome
  • Part II. A hierarchy of laws : Roman constitutional thought
  • 4. Cicero and the legitimacy of political authority
  • 5. Greek vs. Roman constitutional thought
  • Part III. The limits of virtue : the Roman contribution to political thought
  • 6. The Roman Republic as a constitutional order from the Principate to the Renaissance
  • 7. Neo-Roman interlude : Machiavelli and the anti-constitutional tradition
  • 8. Jean Bodin and the fall of the Roman Republic
  • Epilogue : Constitutional republicanism, the "Cant-Word" virtue and the American founding.