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From popular sovereignty to the sovereignty of law : law, society, and politics in fifth-century Athens / Martin Ostwald.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ostwald, Martin, 1922-2010.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rule of law.
- Law.
- History.
- Athens (Greece)--Politics and government.
- Athens (Greece).
- Greece--Athens.
- Law, Greek.
- Law--Greece--Athens--History.
- Constitutional history--Greece--Athens--To 146 B.C.
- Constitutional history.
- Rule of law--Greece--Athens.
- Democracy.
- Politics and government.
- Constitutional history--Greece--Athens.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 663 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1986]
- Summary:
- Analyzing the "democratic" features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century B.C., Martin Ostwald traces their development from Solon's judicial reforms to the flowering of popular sovereignty, when the people assumed the right both to enact all legislation and to hold magistrates accountable for implementing what had been enacted.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The growth of popular sovereignty. Popular sovereignty and the control of government
- Popular sovereignty and social thought
- Popular sovereignty and the control of religion.
- pt. 2. Opposition to popular sovereignty. The prelude
- The poplarizations of the 420s
- Popular sovereignty and the intellectual : Alcibiades
- pt. 3. Toward the sovereignty of law. The problem of the Patrios Politeia (ancestral constitution)
- The breakdown of popular sovereignty
- The second oligarchical challenge and its failure
- Toward a new order : democracy under the law.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-569) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0520054261
- 9780520054264
- 0520067983
- 9780520067981
- OCLC:
- 11622147
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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