What did Charles Montesquieu believe?

Answer 1

Montesquieu believes in various forms of government by explaining how governments might be preserved from corruption.

Pay attention to his theory of the separation of powers. You should learn The Spirit of the Law

He believes that Social institutions are created by fallible human beings who are "subject ... to ignorance and error and hurried away by a thousand impetuous passions" (SL 1.1).

On his view, this apparent chaos is much more comprehensible than one might think; the key - understanding different laws and social systems is to recognize that they should be adapted to a variety of different factors, and cannot be properly understood unless one considers them in this light. Specifically, laws should be adapted "to the people for whom they are framed..., to the nature and principle of each government, ... to the climate of each country, to the quality of its soil, to its situation and extent, to the principal occupation of the natives, whether husbandmen, huntsmen or shepherds: they should have relation to the degree of liberty which the constitution will bear; to the religion of the inhabitants, to their inclinations, riches, numbers, commerce, manners, and customs. To explain, they have relations to each other, as also to their origin, to the intent of the legislator, and to the order of things on which they are established; in all of which different lights they ought to be considered" (SL 1.3).

Each form of government has a principle, a set of "human passions which set it in motion" (SL 3.1)

I think that if Montesquieu were alive, he could be nationalist and be the one who protests against globalization and the consensus called Modus Vivendi (This consensus permits of an agreement between hostile States in the world).

So today, (if he were alive) I could agree with him apex_Democratic government with separation of power

Answer 2

Charles-Louis de Secondat,Baron de le Brede et de Montesquieu,son of a nobleman,born at Brede,1689,and trained in the classics,spent his early mature years administering justice in Bordeaux.In 1716 his uncle died bequeathing him his office of chief justice.In 1721 Montesquieu published Persian Letters,a witty satire on French clericism and manners.In 1728 he was elected to the French Academy.From 1729 to 1731 he traveled widely in Europe,spending more than a year in England.Because of his interest in and contributions to the field of natural science he was elected a member of the Royal Society.In 1734 he published Cosiderations on the Greatness and Decline of Rome.This was followed in 1748 with his greatest work,The Spirit of the Laws.He died in 1755.

In this major work Montesquieu returned to the concern of classical thought for the varity of conditions and development of people to whom political principles were to be applied.This gives his work a cultural and anthropological basis that contrasts strikingly with other political works of the time.He is best known for his concept of the separation of power with its claim that liberty could be preseved only if a proper limit and balance were achieved berween the three branches of government.

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Answer 3

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