Benjamin Straumann

Crisis and Constitutionalism

Roman Political Thought from the Fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

The crisis and fall of the Roman Republic spawned a tradition of political thought that sought to evade the Republic's fate--despotism. Thinkers from Cicero to Bodin, Montesquieu, and the American Founders saw constitutionalism, not virtue, as the remedy. This study traces Roman constitutional thought from antiquity to the Revolutionary Era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9780199950928
• ISBN-10: 019995092X
• Artikelnr.: 47865167

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Straumann is Alberico Gentili Senior Fellow at New York University School of Law and Lecturer at the University of Zurich. He is the author of Roman Law in the State of Nature and co-editor of the book series The History and Theory of International Law.

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Contents
* 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
* II. A Hierarchy of Laws: Roman Constitutional Thought
* 4. Cicero and the Legitimacy of Political Authority
* 5. Greek vs. Roman Constitutional Thought
* 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
* Bibliography