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The Spirit of the Laws

Montesquieu·French

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A comparative study of governments across the world and across time, arguing that laws are shaped by climate, custom, and history, and that liberty survives only where power is divided against itself.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, there can be no liberty. Again, there is no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.

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