Author: DemosthenesPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Demosthenes Against Androtion and Against Timocrates
Author: DemosthenesPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Midias, with notes
Author: DemosthenesThe Orations of Demosthenes Against Timocrates, Aristogiton, Aphobus, Onetor, Zenothemis, Aparturius, Phormio, Lacritus, Pantaenetus, Nausimachus, Boeotus, Spudias, Phaenippus, and for Phormio
Author: DemosthenesThe Orations of Demosthenes Against Timocrates, Aristogiten, Aphobus, Onetor, Zenothemis, Apaturius, Phormio, Lacritus, Pantaenetus, Nausimachus, Boeotus, Spudias, Phaenippus, and for Phormio
Author: DemosthenesThe Orations of Demosthenes Against Timocrates, Aristogiton, Aphobus, Onetor...and for Phormio
Author: DemosthenesThe Orations of Demosthenes Against Leptines, Midias, Androtion, and Aristocrates
Author: DemosthenesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political oratory
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Orations
Author: DemosthenesSyntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes
Author: Basil Lanneau GildersleevePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Control of the Laws in the Ancient Democracy at Athens
Author: Edwin CarawanPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421439506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
The definitive book on judicial review in Athens from the 5th through the 4th centuries BCE. The power of the court to overturn a law or decree—called judicial review—is a critical feature of modern democracies. Contemporary American judges, for example, determine what is consistent with the Constitution, though this practice is often criticized for giving unelected officials the power to strike down laws enacted by the people's representatives. This principle was actually developed more than two thousand years ago in the ancient democracy at Athens. In Control of the Laws in the Ancient Democracy at Athens, Edwin Carawan reassesses the accumulated evidence to construct a new model of how Athenians made law in the time of Plato and Aristotle, while examining how the courts controlled that process. Athenian juries, Carawan explains, were manned by many hundreds of ordinary citizens rather than a judicial elite. Nonetheless, in the 1890s, American apologists found vindication for judicial review in the ancient precedent. They believed that Athenian judges decided the fate of laws and decrees legalistically, focusing on fundamental text, because the speeches that survive from antiquity often involve close scrutiny of statutes attributed to lawgivers such as Solon, much as a modern appellate judge might resort to the wording of the Framers. Carawan argues that inscriptions, speeches, and fragments of lost histories make clear that text-based constitutionalism was not so compelling as the ethos of the community. Carawan explores how the judicial review process changed over time. From the restoration of democracy down to its last decades, the Athenians made significant reforms in their method of legislation, first to expedite a cumbersome process, then to revive the more rigorous safeguards. Jury selection adapted accordingly: the procedure was recast to better represent the polis, and packing the court was thwarted by a complicated lottery. But even as the system evolved, the debate remained much the same: laws and decrees were measured by a standard crafted in the image of the people. Offering a comprehensive account of the ancient origins of an important political institution through philological methods, rhetorical analysis of ancient arguments, and comparisons between models of judicial review in ancient Greece and the modern United States, Control of the Laws in the Ancient Democracy at Athens is an innovative study of ancient Greek law and democracy.
Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science
Author: Mirko CanevaroPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474421784
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
The first full-length academic study to deal exclusively with female stardom in British cinema.