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Montesquieu
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Montesquieu as in:  Baron de Montesquieu

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  • "I am an admirer of Montesquieu," replied Prince Andrew, "and his idea that le principe des monarchies est l'honneur me parait incontestable.†  (source)
  • In order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that Montesquieu should foresee it, that Diderot should preach it, that Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, that Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it is necessary that Danton should dare it.†  (source)
  • Montesquieu, who attributed to absolute power an authority peculiar to itself, did it, as I conceive, an undeserved honor; for despotism, taken by itself, can produce no durable results.†  (source)
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  • The important names are Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau, but there were many, many others.†  (source)
    Montesquieu = French political philosopher who provided the theoretical basis for the separation of executive, legislative, and judicial powers (1689-1755)
  • Montesquieu's theory only refers to the SIZE of the largest MEMBERS of the Union.†  (source)
  • "For instance, he is collecting a library and has made it a rule not to buy a new book till he has read what he had already bought—Sismondi and Rousseau and Montesquieu," he added with a smile.†  (source)
  • Montesquieu somewhere alludes to the excessive despondency of certain Roman citizens who, after the excitement of political life, were all at once flung back into the stagnation of private life.†  (source)
  • That was about twenty years after Montesquieu and only two years before Voltaire and Rousseau, who both died in 1778.†  (source)
  • Montesquieu doesn't oppose a Union of the States.†  (source)
  • Montesquieu remarked, that nothing is more absolute than the authority of a prince who immediately succeeds a republic, since the powers which had fearlessly been intrusted to an elected magistrate are then transferred to a hereditary sovereign.†  (source)
  • This should explain how Montesquieu's writing supports our proposed Union.†  (source)
  • The famous Montesquieu is the expert on this rule.†  (source)
  • Montesquieu's reasons for the separation rule clarify his meaning.†  (source)
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