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Crisis and constitutionalism
Main entry-name Straumann, Benjamin, (author) Title statement Crisis and constitutionalism : Roman political thought from the fall of the republic to the age of revolution / by Benjamin Straumann První nakladatel New York : Oxford University Press, 2016 Phys.des. xii, 414 stran ISBN 978-0-19-087953-2 Note Rejstřík Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy Annotation This unique study makes both a substantial contribution to our understanding of Roman political thought and a major contribution to the reception of Roman ideas about politics. The book demonstrates the development of a very vigorous tradition of constitutional thinking that arose in response to the crises of the late Roman Republic. The study then proceeds to reorient the discussion of the debt of early modern political thought from the familiar claims about republicanism and republican virtue to the rediscovery of this tradition of Roman constitutionalism. In the first part of the book, we learn how a Roman concept of constitution emerged out of the crisis of the Republic. The increasing use of emergency measures and extraordinary powers in the late Republic provoked the politician and thinker Cicero and some of his contemporaries to turn a hitherto implicit, inchoate constitutionalism into explicit constitutional argument and constitutional theory. The crisis of the Republic thus brought about a powerful constitutionalism and convinced Cicero to articulate the norms and rights that would provide its substance; this typically Roman constitutional theory is described in the second part of the study. The third part discusses the reception of Roman constitutional thought up to the late eighteenth century and the American Founding, which gave rise to a new, constitutional republicanism. Special attention is paid to the French political theorist Jean Bodin, who emerges as a key thinker in a tradition leading up to Montesquieu and, eventually, the Federalist and John Adams. This tradition was characterized by a keen interest in the Roman Republic's decline and fall and an insistence on the limits of virtue. The crisis of the Republic was interpreted as a constitutional crisis, and the only remedy to escape the Republic's fate--military despotism--was thought to lie, not in republican virtue, but in Roman constitutionalism. Subj. Headings Konstitucionalismus Římské právo Starověký Řím Římská říše Politika Filozofické aspekty práva Politické aspekty práva Dějiny práva Signatura Z 4327 Country Velká Británie Language English Copy count 1, currently available 1 Database Monografie Stavěcí znak DP 
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