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From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens - Softcover

Ostwald, Martin

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Analyzing the "democratic" features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century B.C., Martin Ostwald traces their development from Solon's judicial reforms to the flowering of popular sovereignty, when the people assumed the right both to enact all legislation and to hold magistrates accountable for implementing what had been enacted.

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Martin Ostwald is W. R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Classics at Swarthmore College, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Autonomia: Its Genesis and Early History (1982).

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9780520054264: From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens

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ISBN 10:  0520054261 ISBN 13:  9780520054264
Publisher: University of California Press, 1987
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