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Antiquity as the source of modernity : freedom and balance in the thought of Montesquieu and Burke / Thomas Chaimowicz ; with a foreword by Russell Kirk.
Van Pelt Library JC179.M753 C4515 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chaimowicz, Thomas.
- Standardized Title:
- Freiheit und Gleichgewicht im Denken Montesquieus und Burkes. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755.
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat.
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
- Burke, Edmund.
- State, The.
- Liberty.
- Balance of power.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 139 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2008]
- Contents:
- Montesquieu's spiritual outlook and evaluation of forms of government
- Monarchy as opposed to despotism
- The concept of the mixed constitution and the separation of powers
- Montesquieu's Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des romains et de leur décadence
- Heredity and freedom in Burke's mixed constitution
- Ideal and reality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Translated from the German.
- ISBN:
- 9781412807715
- 1412807719
- OCLC:
- 185032333
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