Author: Jakob Aall Ottesen LarsenPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Collection of Pamphlets on Greek and Roman Constitutions and Government
Author: Jakob Aall Ottesen LarsenPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Representative Government in Greek and Roman History
Author: J.A. O. LarsenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520363353
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
The Constitution of the Roman Republic
Author: Andrew LintottPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191584673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
There is no other published book in English studying the constitution of the Roman Republic as a whole. Yet the Greek historian Polybius believed that the constitution was a fundamental cause of the exponential growth of Rome's empire. He regarded the Republic as unusual in two respects: first, because it functioned so well despite being a mix of monarchy, oligarchy and democracy; secondly, because the constitution was the product of natural evolution rather than the ideals of a lawgiver. Even if historians now seek more widely for the causes of Rome's rise to power, the importance and influence of her political institutions remains. The reasons for Rome's power are both complex, on account of the mix of elements, and flexible, inasmuch as they were not founded on written statutes but on unwritten traditions reinterpreted by successive generations. Knowledge of Rome's political institutions is essential both for ancient historians and for those who study the contribution of Rome to the republican tradition of political thought from the Middle Ages to the revolutions inspired by the Enlightenment.
The Development of the Roman Constitution
Author: Ambrose TighePublisher:
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights
Author: Susan Ford WiltshirePublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806124643
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The principle that a purpose of government is to protect the individual rights and minority opinions of its citizens is a recent idea in human history. A doctrine of human rights could never have evolved, however, if the ancient Athenians had not invented the revolutionary idea that human beings are capable of governing themselves and if the ancient Romans had not created their elaborate system of law. Susan Ford Wiltshire traces the evolution of the doctrine of individual rights from antiquity through the eighteenth century. The common thread through that long story is the theory of natural law. Growing out of Greek political thought, especially that of Aristotle, natural law became a major tenet of Stoic philosophy during the Hellenistic age and later became attached to Roman legal doctrine. It underwent several transformations during the Middle Ages on the Continent and in England, especially in the thought of John Locke, before it came to justify a theory of natural rights, claimed by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence as the basis of the "unalienable rights" of Americans. Amendment by amendment, Wiltshire assesses in detail the ancient parallels for the twenty-odd provisions of the Bill of Rights. She does not claim that it is directly influenced by Greek and Roman political practice. Rather, she examines classical efforts toward assuring such guarantees as freedom of speech, religious toleration, and trial by jury. Present in the ancient world, too, were early experiments in limiting search and seizure, the billeting of soldiers, and the right to bear arms. Wiltshire concludes that while the idea of individual rights evolved later than classical antiquity, the civic infrastructure supporting such rights in the United States is preeminently a legacy from ancient Greece and Rome. In the era celebrating the Bicentennial of the Bill of Rights, Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights reminds us once again that the idea of ensuring human rights has a long history, one as tenuous but as enduring as the story of human freedom itself.
Oikistes
Author: Vanessa B. GormanPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900435090X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This Festschrift includes a range of essays, mirroring the diverse abilities of the honoree, A. J. Graham, in ancient Greek and Roman constitutional history, military history, and colonization. The articles feature discussions of individual problems in politics, epigraphy, historiography, numismatics, and archaeology, including topics such as the Battle of Actium, the Senatus Consultum de Bacchanalibus, the Spartan constitution, democracy in Camarina, Persian coinage, mercenary soldiers, the origins of both Greek and Roman historical writing, cult practice at Berezan, the Athenian Long Walls, the Peloponnesian War, and various aspects of Greek colonization and Roman provincial policy.
Representative Government in Greek and Roman History
Author: Jakob A. LarsenThe Constitution of the Later Roman Empire
Author: John Bagnell BuryPublisher:
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Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Researches Into the History of the Roman Constitution
Author: Wilhelm IhnePublisher: London, William Pickering
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Representative Government in Greek and Roman History
Author: Jakob Aall Ottesen LarsenPublisher:
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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