Niccolò Machiavelli: Father of Modern Constitutionalism

Niccolò Machiavelli is the father of modern constitutionalism. Constitutionalism began anew in the modern world with the study of the ancient republics and it was Machiavelli who inaugurated this revived science of politics. Five hundred years after the composition of Il Principe and the Discorsi we...

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Published in:Ratio juris 2015-06, Vol.28 (2), p.216-225
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