Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Charles de Montesquieu (Author), Anne M. Cohler (Editor), Basia Carolyn Miller (Editor), Harold Samuel Stone (Editor) 1 more. out of 5 stars. 42 ratings/5(42). These relations I shall examine, since all these together form what I call the Spirit of laws. I have not separated the political from the civil laws, for as I do not pretend to treat of laws, but of their spirit, and as this spirit consists in the various relations which the laws may have to different things, it is not so much my business to follow the natural order of laws, as that of these relations and things. Defense of the Spirit of Laws, from whence we ha ve thought proper to extract, for the sake of such as have not seen that treatise, the principal of those objections, and the substance of what has beenFile Size: 1MB.
The Spirit of Laws (French: De l'esprit des lois, originally spelled De l'esprit des loix) is a treatise on political theory, as well as a pioneering work in comparative law, published in by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. Originally published anonymously, partly because Montesquieu's works were subject to censorship, its influence outside France was aided by its rapid. Montesquieu's seminal work, the Spirit of the Laws, had a profound influence on later political thought, especially through the introduction of the notion of separation of powers, yet was banned. Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws () Zachary Bennett. J. I. Montesquieu's Liberal Realism. Liberalism, the dominant but far from unchallenged political theory in our post-Cold War world, originated as a modification of Thomas Hobbes's political theory. The early liberals, such as John Locke, Baruch Spinoza, and Montesquieu.
The Spirit of Laws (), or L'Esprit des lois, a treatise consisting of thirty-one books written by the French philosopher Montesquieu, is considered by many a landmark contribution to political. Montesquieu () was a French aristocrat, judge, and political philosopher. In his Spirit of the Laws, which was published anonymously in , he compared political systems to discern how to achieve a free regime in the modern world. This work was influential on the Founding Fathers, and Montesquieu’s work was the most cited in eighteenth-century American political thought after the Bible (Lutz in Appendix C). The Spirit of the Laws, Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (), was a nobleman, a judge in a French court, and one of the most influential political thinkers. Based on his research he developed a number of political theories presented in The Spirit of the Laws (). This treatise presented numerous theories - among the most important was respect for the role of history and climate in shaping a nation's political structure.
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