POLD45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Totalitarianism, Politeia, Constitutio Antoniniana
22 Oct 2014
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The view of lawyers, historians, and political scientists. A general observation about words and concepts a single word can refer to many different concepts: eg. free is there such a thing as a free slave. Depends on the meaning of the word free: historical change in meaning sometimes they can mean different things from theorist to theorist. Many words can refer to one single concept: uk; lorry, north america; truck. In other words, there is no ancient notion of a constitution or constitutionalism at all. The constitution recall our to observations from before: one word can denote multiple concepts (free, many different words can denote the one and the same concept (lorry, truck) We can make the same point about the modern idea of a constitution: the. English word constitution is equivalent in meaning to other words such as the greek politeia (a word that both plato and aristotle used) or the.
