Crisis and constitutionalism Roman political thought from the fall of the republic to the age of revolution
This unique study makes both a substantial contribution to our understanding of Roman political thought and a major contribution to the reception of Roman ideas about politics. The book demonstrates the development of a very vigorous tradition of constitutional thinking that arose in response to the...
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Oxford, UK ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press
cop. 2016
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- 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.
