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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- French philosopher and jurist. An outstanding figure of the early French Enlightenment, he wrote the influential Persian Letters (1721), a veiled attack on the monarchy and the ancien régime, and The Spirit of the Laws (1748), a discourse on government.
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- noun French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers (1689-1755)
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The brilliant imagination of Montesquieu is corrected, however, by the dry, cold reason of the Abbe de Mably.
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"The Eroticized Orient: Images of the Harem in Montesquieu and his Precursors."
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I also recall Montesquieu argued the courts should be invisible!
The Volokh Conspiracy » Destroying the Constitution’s Structure is not Constitutional
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In an admirable phrase Montesquieu encapsulated the moral taste that the student leaders represented and on which they played: “Men, although they are individually rascals, are collectively a most decent lot: they love morality.”
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In an admirable phrase Montesquieu encapsulated the moral taste that the student leaders represented and on which they played: “Men, although they are individually rascals, are collectively a most decent lot: they love morality.”
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Montesquieu is a stranger.] 91 See the Salic law, (tit.lxii. in tom.iv. p. 156.)
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In this connection we shall notice a passage from Montesquieu, which is exactly in point.
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But neither the antiquarian interest of the seventeenth-century erudites nor the philosophic concerns of the great eighteenth-century historians, such as Montesquieu, Voltaire, Gibbon,
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