Who is Charles De Montesquieu
Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (; French: [mɔ̃tɛskjø]; 18 January 1689 – 10 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, man of letters, historian, and political philosopher.He is the principal source of the theory of separation of powers, which is implemented in many constitutions throughout the world. He is also known for doing more than any other author to secure the place of the word despotism in the political lexicon. His anonymously published The Spirit of Law (1748), which was received well in both Great Britain and the American colonies, influenced the Founding Fathers of the United States in drafting the U.S. Constitution.
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Montesquieu was born at the Château de ...
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- It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
- Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
- We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
- I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
- There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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