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1 online resource (168 pages) |
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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 |
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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 |
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Uncovering the roots of the U.S. Constitution |
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Copyright Page |
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Constitutional history -- United States.
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Constitutional history -- England
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Roman law -- History.
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Law, Greek -- History
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Constitutional history
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Law, Greek
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Roman law
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England
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United States
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781497675131 |
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1497675138 |
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