The democratic experience of ancient Greece has always been a reservoir to draw from when debating on democracy and especially on its present crisis. But what can the Athenian democracy of the 5th and 4th centuries b.c.e. teach us regarding the problem of constitutional stability? Was the principle of the supremacy of the will of the people – which was deeply rooted in the minds of the radical democrats - compatible with the building of mechanisms to ensure some form of constitutional control? In this paper I argue that the most remote roots of constitutionalism based on the control exercised by constitutional courts are to be found in the oligarchic thought rather than in the democratic one.
(2015). Metabolai. I rivolgimenti costituzionali fra antico e moderno [journal article - articolo]. In MATERIALI PER UNA STORIA DELLA CULTURA GIURIDICA. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/34494
Metabolai. I rivolgimenti costituzionali fra antico e moderno
BANFI, Antonio Mario
2015-01-01
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The democratic experience of ancient Greece has always been a reservoir to draw from when debating on democracy and especially on its present crisis. But what can the Athenian democracy of the 5th and 4th centuries b.c.e. teach us regarding the problem of constitutional stability? Was the principle of the supremacy of the will of the people – which was deeply rooted in the minds of the radical democrats - compatible with the building of mechanisms to ensure some form of constitutional control? In this paper I argue that the most remote roots of constitutionalism based on the control exercised by constitutional courts are to be found in the oligarchic thought rather than in the democratic one.File | Dimensione del file | Formato | |
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