O equilíbrio do poder na história do pensamento político democrático: da constituição mista à separação de poderes e o bicameralismo.

Abstract

The proposal of this paper is to demonstrate the evolution in the democratic political thought concerning the balance of power. Balancing the power in a way to avert tyranny has always been an important object in the history of democratic political thought. We notice that such preoccupation started in Ancient Greece with Aristotle conceiving the social balance on the mixed constitution as a way to avoid tyranny, passing by Polybius and Machiavelli.