Montesquieu's Comparative Politics and the Spirit of American Constitutionalism
"American republicans," notes Forrest McDonald, "regarded selected doctrines of Montesquieu's as being virtually on par with Holy Writ." But exactly how the French jurist's labyrinthian work, The Spirit of the Laws, with was published in 1748, influenced the eighteenthc...
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London :
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1988.
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