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Montesquieu

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Montesquieu
After Jacques-Antoine Dassier / Public domain · resizedfile
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The Spirit of the Laws (1748) argued that liberty depends on dividing power between legislative, executive and judicial branches so that "power checks power". Rather than natural rights, Montesquieu stressed institutions and social conditions, a different route to freedom that shaped the US Constitution.
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