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Philosophical concept

Constitutional government

Constitutional government exercises power through established offices, procedures, and limits, including when war puts those constraints under pressure.

Works
123
Passages
20,906
Thinkers
33
Traditions
12

Understand uses of the concept

Constitutional government exercises power through established offices, procedures, and limits, including when war puts those constraints under pressure.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 20,906 passages across 123 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: constitution, constitutional, government by the people

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 982 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 19,210 passages
  3. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. PoliticsAristotle · 126 passages
  7. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  8. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  9. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  10. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  11. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  12. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  13. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  14. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  15. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  16. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  17. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  18. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  19. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  20. On FateCicero · 0 passages
  21. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  22. On the RepublicCicero · 0 passages
  23. PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
  24. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  25. The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages
  26. Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI: The Cynics, by Diogenes LaertiusDiogenes Laertius · 0 passages
  27. Geometry and Experience, French TranslationAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  28. Sidelights on RelativityAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  29. The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s LettersAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  30. The Meaning of RelativityAlbert Einstein · 0 passages