Montesquieu
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noun
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As Montesquieu had emphasized, they were especially desirable for a republic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Like Montesquieu, Locke advocated for a separation of governmental powers in which the legislative, not the executive, would be supreme.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2023
His contemporary Montesquieu also wrote extensively about the relationship between laws and rights.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
These politicians were drawing on the writings of Enlightenment intellectuals such as Montesquieu and John Locke, studying historical examples from ancient Greece and Rome, and embracing key elements of English governance and common law.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu, born in 1689 near Bordeaux, died at Paris 1755, who earned considerable fame by his “Lettres Persanes,” is more famous for his oft-referred to work “L’Esprit des Lois.”
From Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
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