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Something wrong?He gave the modern world its blueprint for dividing government power - executive, legislative, judicial - and the word "despotism" as a permanent fixture in political argument.
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, Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
[The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread...and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, was a French judge, intellectual, historian, and political philosopher born 18 January 1689. In 1748 he published The Spirit of Law anonymously, a work that laid out the theory of separation of powers and secured "despotism" in the political lexicon. The book found eager readers in Great Britain and the American colonies; Thomas Nugent's 1750 English translation reached the men who would draft the U.S. Constitution, and they lifted the framework whole. Montesquieu died 10 February 1755, having sketched the architecture most democracies still live inside.
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