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Athens, Rome, and England : America's Constitutional Heritage.
Uncovering the roots of the U.S. Constitution.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newburyport :
Intercollegiate Studies Institute,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part One: The Constitution of Ancient Athens; 1 Ancient Greece and American Constitutionalism; 2 The Evolution of Athenian Democracy: Model and Contrast for American Democratic Development; 3 The Empire of Reason: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; Part Two: The Constitution of Ancient Rome; 4 Rome, America, and the Importance of Roman Law; 5 Roman Law and American Law: Comparisons and Contrasts; 6 Roman Law from the Monarchy to the Republic; 7 The Republic in Decline and the Empire.
- Part Three: The English Constitution and English Common Law8 The Importance and Origins of the English Constitution; 9 English Law from the Conquest to Magna Carta, 1066-1215; 10 From Magna Carta to the Origins of Parliament; 11 Henry VII and the Foundations of Tudor Constitutionalism; 12 Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell, and the Tudor Constitutional Revolution; 13 James I and the Start of the English Constitutional Crisis of the Seventeenth Century; 14 From Civil War to Glorious Revolution; 15 From Classical and Common Law Background to American Constitutionalism; Conclusion; Notes; Index.