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Author Carawan, Edwin, author.

Title Control of the laws in the ancient democracy at Athens / Edwin Carawan.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 308 pages).
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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)
Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government.
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Judicial process. (OCoLC)fst00984705
Constitutional history. (OCoLC)fst00875777
Greece -- Athens. (OCoLC)fst01204474
Chronological Term To 1500
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: 9781421439495 1421439492 (DLC) 2020011674 (OCoLC)1142016393
ISBN 9781421439501 (electronic book)
1421439506 (electronic book)
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