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 eighteenthcentury conception of the repub...

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Main Author:	Cohler, Anne M.
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	University Press of Kansas 2022
Subjects:	Constitution: government & the state thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHC Constitution: government and the state
Online Access:	ONIX_20220715_9780700630813_240
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