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constitution. amendment, in government and law, an addition or alteration made to a constitution, statute, or legislative bill or resolution. Amendments can be made to existing constitutions and statutes and are also commonly made to bills in the course of their passage through a legislature.
As expounded by him, it is a mixed or blended constitution. Although this was a rarity in actual fact, both then and later, the notion of the mixed constitution was to play an important part in political theory both in the ancient world and more recently, from about AD 1500 to the time of the American Revolution.
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This article argues that constitutional mixture should be regarded as an inherent, inevitable feature of constitutions, and to some degree all constitutions are mixed. Thus, “mixed constitutions” should not be regarded as a distinct category of constitutions. Instead of asking whether a constitution is mixed, it might therefore be more useful to ask in which characteristics and to what ...
The concept of the “mixed constitution”, combining aspects of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, goes back to Athens in the fourth century BC. We will trace its evolution from there through the Roman Republic, the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the English Civil War, to the American Revolution. The theory of the mixed constitution ...
mixed constitution, combining aspects of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, goes back to Athens in the fourth century BC. It began as a critique of radical democracy, especially by Plato and Aristotle, but it is better known through the work of Montesquieu and Rousseau as a form of opposition to monarchical tyranny.
1. The concept of mixed government originated in the second century BC with the Greek historian Polybius’ attempt to account for the outstanding stability of the Roman Republic. The system of government of the Roman Republic, Polybius noted, combined aspects of each of the three Aristotelian classes of government: monarchy, aristocracy, and ...
Accounts of England’s constitution, even in the more systematic treatments of the middle decades of the eighteenth century, followed the common early modern pattern in which political theory often comprised an uneven amalgam of classical maxims of government, narrow partisan polemics, antiquarian learning, historical researches, and technical legal doctrine.
