Crisis And Constitutionalism: Roman Political Thought From The Fall Of The Republic To The Age Of Revolution

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--

• | Author: Benjamin Straumann
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 04, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 433 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 019995092X
• | ISBN-13: 9780199950928