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Montesquieu's The spirit of the laws : a critical edition / W. B. Allen, translation and commentary.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755, author.
Contributor:
Allen, W. B. (William Barclay), 1944- translator, writer of commentary.
Standardized Title:
De l'esprit des lois. English
Language:
English
French
Subjects (All):
Political science--Early works to 1800.
Political science.
State, The--Early works to 1800.
State, The.
Law--Philosophy--Early works to 1800.
Law.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxviii, 954 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
London : Anthem Press, 2023.
Summary:
<i>The Spirit of the Laws</i> not only systematizes the foundational ideas of separation of powers and balances and checks, it provides the decisive response to the question of whether power in the nation-state can be limited in the aftermath of the Westphalian settlement of 1648. It describes a civilizational change through which power becomes domesticated, with built-in resistance to attempts to absolutize (or make total) political power. As such, it is the Bible of modern politics, now made more accessible to English readers than it ever has been.
Contents:
Cover
Half-Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Translator's Preface
Foreword
THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS BY MONTESQUIEU
Concerning the Spirit of the Laws
Preface
Book One Concerning Laws in General
Chapter 1: About the Laws, in the Relationship They Have with Diverse Beings
Chapter 2: About the Laws of Nature
Chapter 3: About the Positive Laws
Book Two Concerning the Laws Which Derive Directly from the Nature of the Government
Chapter 1: About the Nature of the Three Different Governments
Chapter 2: About Republican Government, and About the Laws Relative to the Democracy
Chapter 3: About Laws Relative to the Nature of the Aristocracy
Chapter 4: About the Laws in Their Relationship to the Nature of Monarchical Government
Chapter 5: About the Laws Relative to the Nature of the Despotic State
Book Three Concerning the Principles of the Three Governments
Chapter 1: Difference Between the Government's Nature and Its Principle
Chapter 2: About the Principle of the Different Governments
Chapter 3: About the Principle of Democracy
Chapter 4: About the Principle of Aristocracy
Chapter 5: That Virtue Is Not the Principle of Monarchical Government
Chapter 6: How They Supplement Virtue in Monarchical Government
Chapter 7: About the Principle of Monarchy
Chapter 8: That Honor Is Not the Principle of Despotic States
Chapter 9: About the Principle of Despotic Government
Chapter 10: Difference in Obedience Between Moderate Governments and Despotic Governments
Chapter 11: Reflections About All This
Book Four That Education Laws Ought to Be Relative to the Principles of the Government
Chapter 1: About the Education Laws
Chapter 2: About Education in Monarchies
Chapter 3: About Education in a Despotic Government.
Chapter 4: The Difference in the Effect of Education Among the Ancients and Among Us
Chapter 5: About Education Under Republican Government
Chapter 6: About Some Greek Institutions
Chapter 7: The Cases in Which Singular Institutions May Be Good
Chapter 8: The Explanation for a Paradox of the Ancients in Relation to Morals
Book Five The Legislator's Laws Must Be Relative to the Principle of the Government
Chapter 1: Idea of This Book
Chapter 2: What Virtue Is in the Political State
Chapter 3: What Love of the Republic Is in Democracy
Chapter 4: How They Inspire Love of Equality and Frugality
Chapter 5: How the Laws Establish Equality, in a Democracy
Chapter 6: How the Laws Ought to Maintain Frugality in a Democracy
Chapter 7: Other Means to Encourage the Principle of Democracy
Chapter 8: How the Laws Ought to Relate to the Principle of Government in [an] Aristocracy
Chapter 9: How the Laws Are Relative to Their Principle, in a Monarchy
Chapter 10: About Promptitude of Execution in Monarchy
Chapter 11: About the Excellence of Monarchical Government
Chapter 12: Continuing the Same Subject
Chapter 13: Idea of Despotism
Chapter 14: How the Laws Are Relative to the Principle of Despotic Government
Chapter 15: Continuing the Same Subject
Chapter 16: About the Communication of Power
Chapter 17: About Gifts
Chapter 18: About Rewards Given by the Sovereign
Chapter 19: New Consequences of the Principles of the Three Governments
Book Six Consequences of the Principles of Different Governments, in Relation to the Simplicity of Civil and Criminal Laws, the Method of Judgment, and the Establishment of Penalties
Chapter 1: About the Simplicity of Civil Laws in Different Governments
Chapter 2: About the Simplicity of Criminal Laws in the Differing Governments.
Chapter 3: Under Which Governments and in Which Cases One Must Judge According to a Precise Text of the Law
Chapter 4: About the Manner of Forming Judgments
Chapter 5: Under Which Governments the Sovereign May Be Judge
Chapter 6: That the Ministers Ought Not to Judge in a Monarchy
Chapter 7: About the Single Magistrate
Chapter 8: About Accusations Under the Different Governments
Chapter 9: About the Severity of Penalties Under the Different Governments
Chapter 10: Some Ancient French Laws
Chapter 11: For Few Penalties Are Required When People Are Virtuous
Chapter 12: About the Authority of Penalties
Chapter 13: Powerlessness of Japanese Laws
Chapter 14: About the Spirit of the Roman Senate
Chapter 15: About Roman Laws with Respect to Penalties
Chapter 16: About the Just Proportion of the Penalty to the Crime
Chapter 17: About Torture or Forced Confessions Against Criminals
Chapter 18: About Pecuniary Penalties and Corporal Penalties
Chapter 19: About the Law of an Eye for an Eye
Chapter 20: About the Punishment of Fathers in Behalf of Children
Chapter 21: About the Prince's Clemency
Book Seven Consequences of the Differing Principles of the Three Governments, in Relation to Sumptuary Laws, Luxury, and the Status of Women
Chapter 1: About Luxury
Chapter 2: About Sumptuary Laws in a Democracy
Chapter 3: About Sumptuary Laws in Aristocracy
Chapter 4: About Sumptuary Laws in Monarchies
Chapter 5: The Cases in Which Sumptuary Laws Are Useful in a Monarchy
Chapter 6: About Luxury in China
Chapter 7: A Fatal Consequence of Luxury in China
Chapter 8: About Public Continence
Chapter 9: About the Condition of Women Under the Differing Governments
Chapter 10: About the Domestic Tribunal Among the Romans
Chapter 11: How the Institutions Changed in Rome with the Government.
Chapter 12: About the Guardianship of Women Among the Romans
Chapter 13: About Penalties Set Up by the Emperors Against the Debaucheries of Women
Chapter 14: Sumptuary Laws Among the Romans
Chapter 15: About Dowries and Nuptial Advantages Under the Differing Constitutions
Chapter 16: A Beautiful Samnite Custom
Chapter 17: About the Management of Women
Book Eight Concerning the Corruption of the Principles of the Three Governments
Chapter 1: General Idea of This Book
Chapter 2: About the Corruption of the Principle of Democracy
Chapter 3: About the Spirit of Extreme Equality
Chapter 4: A Particular Cause of the People's Corruption
Chapter 5: About the Corruption of the Principle of Aristocracy
Chapter 6: About the Corruption of the Principle of Monarchy
Chapter 7: Continuing the Same Subject
Chapter 8: Danger of Corruption of the Principle of Monarchical Government
Chapter 9: How Far the Nobility Is Inclined to Defend the Throne
Chapter 10: About the Corruption of the Principle of Despotic Government
Chapter 11: Natural Effects of the Goodness and of the Corruption of the Principles
Chapter 13: Effect of the Oath Among a Virtuous People
Chapter 14: How the Smallest Change in the Constitution Entails the Ruin of the Principles
Chapter 15: Most Efficacious Means for the Preservation of the Three Principles
Chapter 16: Distinctive Characteristics of the Republic
Chapter 17: Distinctive Characteristics of Monarchy
Chapter 18: Why the Spanish Monarchy Was in a Special Situation
Chapter 19: Distinctive Characteristics of Despotic Government
Chapter 20: Consequence of the Preceding Chapters
Chapter 21: About the Chinese Empire
Book Nine Concerning the Laws in the Relation They Have with Defensive Strength.
Chapter 1: How Republics Provide for Their Safety
Chapter 2: That the Federal Constitution Must Be Made up of States of the Same Nature, Especially Republican States
Chapter 3: Other Things Required in the Federal Republic
Chapter 4: How Despotic States Provide for Their Safety
Chapter 5: How Monarchy Provides for Its Safety
Chapter 6: About the Defensive Force in States in General
Chapter 7: Reflections
Chapter 8: The Case in Which a State's Defensive Force Is Inferior to Its Offensive Force
Chapter 9: About the Relative Strength of States
Chapter 10: About the Weakness of Neighboring States
Book Ten Concerning the Laws in Their Relation to Offensive Force
Chapter 1: About Offensive Force
Chapter 2: About War
Chapter 3: About the Right of Conquest
Chapter 4: Some Advantages of the Conquered People
Chapter 5: Gelon, King of Syracuse
Chapter 6: About a Republic That Conquers
Chapter 8: Continuing the Same Subject
Chapter 9: About a Monarchy Which Conquers Around Itself
Chapter 10: About a Monarchy Which Conquers Another Monarchy
Chapter 11: About the Morals of a Conquered People
Chapter 12: About a Law of Cyrus
Chapter 13: Charles the Twelfth
Chapter 14: Alexander
Chapter 15: New Means to Preserve the Conquest
Chapter 16: About a Despotic State That Conquers
Chapter 17: Continuing the Same Subject
Book Eleven About Laws Which Create Political Liberty, in Its Relation to the Constitution
Chapter 1: A General Idea
Chapter 2: Different Meanings Assigned to the Word Liberty
Chapter 3: That Which Is Liberty
Chapter 4: Continuing the Same Subject
Chapter 5: About the Objective363 of Differing States
Chapter 6: About England's Constitution
Chapter 7: About the Monarchies That We Know.
Chapter 8: Why the Ancients Did Not Have a Very Clear Idea of Monarchy.
Notes:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Apr 2024).
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781839982958
1839982950
9781839982965
1839982969
OCLC:
1417758489

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