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Author Carawan, Edwin, author

Title Control of the laws in the ancient democracy at Athens Edwin Carawan
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (x, 308 pages)
Series Cultural histories of the ancient world
Cultural histories of the ancient world.
Contents The People and the Law : Demos and Nomos -- Making Law and Mending the Constitution -- Judges and Lawmakers -- "Unlawful Action" (Paranoma) and the Case of the Arginousai Generals -- Privileged Characters: Aristocrates' Shield for Charidemos -- Outrage : The Case against Androtion -- Breaking the Bargain : The Case against Leptines' Law -- The Aftermath of Chaironeia -- The Crown Case Comes to Trial -- Law's Measure
Summary "Classicist Carawan explores changes in the judicial review of laws in ancient democratic Athens over time. Reassessing the accumulated evidence, he constructs a new model of how the courts shaped Athenian lawmaking. He also compares the judiciary of ancient Athens to that of the modern United States"-- Provided by publisher
Subject Constitutional history -- Greece -- Athens -- To 146 B.C.
Judicial process -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500
Law, Greek -- Political aspects -- Greece -- Athens
Judicial process (Greek law)
Judicial process (Greek law)
Politics and government
Judicial process
Constitutional history
SUBJECT Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government
Subject Greece -- Athens
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781421439501
1421439506