- Again, the author has said that the creation which appears to be an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as the fatality of the Atheists.
- To the former of these he answers, by placing in one view the several passages in the Spirit of Laws directly levelled against the doctrines of Spinoza...
- The Spirit of Laws is Montesquieu’s best known work in which he reflects on the influence of climate on society, the separation of political powers...
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- Anyone with a deep interest in politics and the history of govt who wishes to broaden their understanding would thoroughly enjoy this book.
- The spirit of laws is the restrictions it places on those in power to keep them from imposing tyranny over the people.
- The Spirit of the Laws not only systematizes the foundational ideas of separation of powers and balances and checks, it provides the decisive response to the...
- Volume I. (Table of Contents). The Translator to the Reader. Preface. Book I. Of Laws in general. Book II. Of Laws directly derived from the Nature of Government. Book III.
- The Spirit of the Laws is without question one of the central texts in the history of eighteenth-century thought, yet there has been no complete scholarly...
- Montesquieu The Spirit of the Laws Montesquieu’s family first appears among Bordeaux’s provincial nobility, when Jean de Secondat, whose wife was...
