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- Title
"KEEP THE PUBLIC RICH, BUT THE CITIZENS POOR": ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL INEQUALITY IN CONSTITUTIONS, ANCIENT AND MODERN.
- Authors
McCormick, John P.
- Abstract
The author focuses on concerns related to economic and political disparity, found in the modern and ancient constitutions. He stresses on economic inequality which affects the civic liberty. He highlights the attempts made by ancient Republics to compare the threat posed to liberty by economic inequality. He discusses the analysis of Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian philosopher of Roman Republic, on Roman Republic to find clues for determining the ways by which the corrupt influences of wealth could be contained by them. He reflects on the laws of Democratic Athens that empowered poor citizens in three primary ways including the opening of legislative assembly to all citizens, distribution of executive offices by lottery and including randomly selected citizens to form political courts.
- Subjects
EQUALITY; MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo, 1469-1527; CONSTITUTIONS; REGIONAL economic disparities; LIBERTY; REPUBLICS; PHILOSOPHERS; WEALTH effect (Economics); EXECUTIVE offices; LEGISLATIVE bodies
- Publication
Cardozo Law Review, 2013, Vol 34, Issue 3, p879
- ISSN
0270-5192
- Publication type
Article