دستور قرطاج و مؤسساتها خلال المرحلة الأرستقراطية (480-237 ق. م)‎

Abstract EN

It is not by coincidence that we choose the theme; Carthage constitution and institutions during the Aristocratic era.

But it is a result to what we see during our work on the PH D thesis.

So we get reach a result that the searcher and the observer of the political history of the state of Carthage, which evolved from the Monarchy to the Aristocracy to the Democracy, can observe clearly the appearance of constitution and the institutions of Carthage during the Aristocratic era.

It can't be a sort of exaggeration if the observer states that this era is the most important one among those periods of the Carthaginian political history.

Despite the fact that the majority of researches, in relation to the era under consideration, concentrated on the military sector and usually ignore the characteristics and specifications of the political system.

So the aim of this study is to know about the Carthaginian constitution that had take the attention of the Greek philosopher ARISTOTLE and his famous confirmation that "this constitution is the most sophisticated in the world" at that time and he counted its privileges.

In addition the counting of the governing committee which was headed by the two grand sons who were specialized to govern the state affairs for one year in collaboration with the Senate added to the court of one hundred and four, and the people's house.

Also we will demonstrate the factors that impressed the constitution and display the role played by each institution during the history of the state of Carthage.