Montesquieu · Politics
How a French baron’s study of laws became the working blueprint of modern government - and how, two and a half centuries on, his ideas are both celebrated as the grammar of free constitutions and challenged as a brake on effective democracy.
You learned how Montesquieu’s ideas shaped the United States Constitution and modern constitutionalism. Explain in your own words what the framers took from him, and one serious modern criticism of the separation of powers.
Leads to David Hume.
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