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The Governance of ROME

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  • © 1973

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  1. Karl Loewenstein
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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXXI
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  2. The Republic

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Karl Loewenstein
      Pages 3-5

    3. The Origins: The Period of the Mythological Kings

      • Karl Loewenstein
      Pages 7-17

    4. The Class Struggle and the Merger between the Patricians and the Plebeians

      • Karl Loewenstein
      Pages 19-39

    5. The Political Institutions of the Republic I: The Magistrates

      • Karl Loewenstein
      Pages 41-90

    6. The Political Institutions of the Republic II: The Popular Assemblies

      • Karl Loewenstein
      Pages 91-146

    7. The Political Institutions of the Republic III: The Senate

      • Karl Loewenstein
      Pages 147-177

    8. The Administration of Justice

      • Karl Loewenstein
      Pages 179-191

    9. The Collapse of the Republican Order

      • Karl Loewenstein
      Pages 193-226

    10. A Postscript Why the Roman Republic Never Became a Democracy

      • Karl Loewenstein
      Pages 227-233

  3. The Empire

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. Augustus and the Foundation of the Principate

      1. Introduction: Principate and Dominate
        • Karl Loewenstein
        Pages 238-238
      2. The Establishment of the Principate
        • Karl Loewenstein
        Pages 239-253
      3. The Institutions of the Augustan Principate I
        • Karl Loewenstein
        Pages 255-273
      4. The Institutions of the Augustan Principate II
        • Karl Loewenstein
        Pages 275-291
      5. The Administration of Justice
        • Karl Loewenstein
        Pages 293-300
      6. The Augustan Reform Legislation
        • Karl Loewenstein
        Pages 301-308
      7. The Creator and His Work
        • Karl Loewenstein
        Pages 309-325

    3. The Principate in Operation

      1. The Period in Retrospect
        • Karl Loewenstein
        Pages 329-332
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About this book

Next to the Bible, Shakespeare, the French revolution and Napoleon, ancient Rome is one of the most plowed-through fields of historical experience. One of the truly great periods of history, Rome, over the centuries, deservedly has attracted the passionate attention of historians, philologists and, more recently, archeologists. Since Roman law constituted the source of the legal life of most of Western Europe, the legal profession had a legitimate interest. Veritable libraries have been built around the history of Rome. In the past confmed mostly to Italian, German, and French scholars the fascination with things Roman by now has spread to other civilized nations in­ cluding the Anglo-Saxon. Among the contributors to our knowledge of ancient Rome are some of the great minds in history and law. Our bibliography - selective, as neces­ sarily it has to be - records outstanding generalists as well as some of the numerous specialists that were helpful for our undertaking. Why, then, another study of the Roman political civilization and one that, at least measured by volume and effort, is not altogether insubstantial? And why, has to be added, one presented by an author who, whatever his reputation in other fields, ostensibly is an outsider of the classical discipline? These are legitimate questions that should be honestly answered. By training and avocation the author is a constitutional lawyer or, rather, a political scientist primarily interested in the operation of governmental institutions.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Governance of ROME

  • Authors: Karl Loewenstein

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2400-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1973

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-247-1458-2Published: 31 July 1973

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-2400-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXII, 502

  • Topics: History, general, Political Science

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