Montesquieu's Comparative Politics and the Spirit of American Constitutionalism

by Anne M. Cohler

Book Overview

"American republicans," notes Forrest McDonald, "regarded selected doctrines of Montesquieu's as being virtually on par with Holy Writ." But exactly how the French jurist's labyrinthian work, The Spirit of the Laws, with was published in 1748, influenced the eighteenth-century conception of the republic is not well understood by historians or theorists. Anne M. Cohler undertakes to show the importance of Montequieu's teaching for modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700631445
• ISBN13: 9780700631445
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"