De l'esprit des lois¶
Montesquieu, C. d. S. (1748). De l'esprit des lois.
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Primes¶
- Balance
- … Balance to analyze competing goods, rights, duties — from Aristotle's golden mean through contemporary pluralist ethics and capability approaches. Political philosophy and constitutional design: Balance to checks and balances in constitutional design, separation of powers, and pluralist models of democracy.
This sourceArgues that political liberty depends on placing the legislative, executive, and judicial powers in separate hands so that 'power checks power' — the philosophical foundation of separation of powers as a balancing mechanism.
- … Balance to analyze competing goods, rights, duties — from Aristotle's golden mean through contemporary pluralist ethics and capability approaches. Political philosophy and constitutional design: Balance to checks and balances in constitutional design, separation of powers, and pluralist models of democracy.
- Checks and Balances
- The doctrine emerged explicitly during the Enlightenment, particularly in Montesquieu's De l'esprit des lois (1748), which theorized that executive, legislative, and judicial functions must reside in separate hands to prevent tyranny.
This sourceEnlightenment treatise theorizing that liberty depends on placing executive, legislative, and judicial powers in separate hands to prevent tyranny; foundational source for the separation-of-powers doctrine operationalized in the U.S. Constitution.
- The doctrine emerged explicitly during the Enlightenment, particularly in Montesquieu's De l'esprit des lois (1748), which theorized that executive, legislative, and judicial functions must reside in separate hands to prevent tyranny.
- Separation of Powers
- Originating formally in Montesquieu's (1748) treatise De l'esprit des lois (Book XI, especially Chapter 6), this principle holds that legislative, executive, and judicial functions operate most effectively and safely when vested in separate branches with competing interests and overlapping checks.
This sourceEnlightenment treatise theorizing that liberty depends on placing executive, legislative, and judicial powers in separate hands; foundational source for the doctrine of separation of powers later operationalized in the U.S. Constitution.
- Originating formally in Montesquieu's (1748) treatise De l'esprit des lois (Book XI, especially Chapter 6), this principle holds that legislative, executive, and judicial functions operate most effectively and safely when vested in separate branches with competing interests and overlapping checks.
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