Montesquieu's

Dubbing them the "Enlightenment rationalists", Kidd glosses a few of their much-mentioned intellectual influences like Locke's philosophy of religious tolerance and Montesquieu's humanism, but leaves out equally important sources like the highly heterodox Cicero and Voltaire.

Anil Mundra: 'God Of Liberty': The Role Of Religion In American Independence Anil Mundra 2011

Montesquieu's 18th-century insight that a true democracy requires three separate powers -- the Executive, the Legislature, and the Courts -- in case one of them falters, has proven to be all the more prescient in the 21st-century struggle for LGBT rights.

Javier Corrales: Brazil's Recognition of Same-Sex Unions Javier Corrales 2011

They had all read the same books: Locke's "Two Treatises on Government," Montesquieu's "The Spirit of the Laws," Rousseau's "The Social Contract," Voltaire's writings and those of Adam Smith.

Our Founders Were All on the Same Page 2011

As any constitutional law student learns in his first-year class, the judicial branch, following French philosopher Montesquieu's ideas, reviews and rules on the constitutionality of laws approved by Congress.

Nestor Fantini: Is Gingrich Proposing An Authoritarian Political System? Nestor Fantini 2011

Montesquieu's 18th-century insight that a true democracy requires three separate powers -- the Executive, the Legislature, and the Courts -- in case one of them falters, has proven to be all the more prescient in the 21st-century struggle for LGBT rights.

Javier Corrales: Brazil's Recognition of Same-Sex Unions Javier Corrales 2011

Montesquieu's "The Spirit of Laws," which analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of despotic rule, had a powerful impact on her.

Catherine the Great's Lessons for Despots Robert K. Massie 2011

Dubbing them the "Enlightenment rationalists", Kidd glosses a few of their much-mentioned intellectual influences like Locke's philosophy of religious tolerance and Montesquieu's humanism, but leaves out equally important sources like the highly heterodox Cicero and Voltaire.

Anil Mundra: 'God Of Liberty': The Role Of Religion In American Independence Anil Mundra 2011

As any constitutional law student learns in his first-year class, the judicial branch, following French philosopher Montesquieu's ideas, reviews and rules on the constitutionality of laws approved by Congress.

Nestor Fantini: Is Gingrich Proposing An Authoritarian Political System? Nestor Fantini 2011

But Montesquieu's "On the Spirit of Laws" -- the foundational work of sociology -- helped originate "philosophical" or "universal" history, which looks at the entire organic structure of a society.

Book review of Hugh Trevor-Roper's "History and the Enlightenment" 2010

Montesquieu's 1721 Lettres Persanes, which offered a set of fictionalized letters by Persians allegedly traveling in France, and Swift's 1726

Voltaire Shank, JB 2009