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- “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. (Cambridge University Press (September 29, 1989)”
- “Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.” ― Charles-Louis De Secondat Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws.
- “Democratic and aristocratic states are not in their own nature free. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in these it is not always found.
- “... when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.” ― Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws.
- To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. Baron de Montesquieu. Leadership, Funny Inspirational, Integrity.
- It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power. Baron de Montesquieu. Checks, Should.
- The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. Baron de Montesquieu. Honesty, Integrity, War.
- When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
The name most associated with the doctrine of the separation of powers is that of Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron Montesquieu. His influence upon later thought and upon the development of institutions far outstrips, in this connection, that of any of the earlier writers we have considered.
Jul 18, 2003 · This theory of the separation of powers had an enormous impact on liberal political theory, and on the framers of the constitution of the United States of America.
Montesquieu divides power in three ways: the power to make laws, the power to engage with foreign nations, and the power to enforce (and interpret) the nation’s laws.
Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) was one of the most influential legal theorists and political philosophers of the 18th century. His ideas about the separation of powers and checks on the power of the executive had a profound impact on the architects of the American constitution.
Like Locke, Montesquieu argues that the powers of government should be separated. Montesquieu’s plan of separation between executive, legislative, and judicial powers is what the United States Constitution follows.
