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Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
The Spirit of Laws (1748)
Table of Contents


  • Title Page, Translator's Note, Preface, Advertisement
  • Book   1:   Of Laws in General
  • Book   2:   Of Laws Directly Derived from the Nature of Government
  • Book   3:   Of the Principles of the Three Kinds of Government
  • Book   4:   Education Ought to Relate to the Principles of Government
  • Book   5:   The Legislator Ought to Relate to the Principle of Government
  • Book   6:   Civil and Criminal Laws, the Form of Judgments, and Punishments
  • Book   7:   Sumptuary Laws, Luxury, and the Condition of Women
  • Book   8:   Of the Corruption of the Principles of the Three Governments
  • Book   9:   Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to a Defensive Force
  • Book 10:   Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to Offensive Force
  • Book 11:   Political Liberty, with Regard to the Constitution
  • Book 12:   Laws That Form Political Liberty, in Relation to the Subject
  • Book 13:   Of the Relation Which Taxes and Public Revenues Bear to Liberty
  • Book 14:   Of Laws in Relation to the Nature of the Climate
  • Book 15:   Of Civil Slavery in Relation to the Nature of the Climate
  • Book 16:   How the Laws of Domestic Slavery Relate to the Climate
  • Book 17:   How the Laws of Political Servitude Relate to the Climate
  • Book 18:   Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to the Nature of the Soil
  • Book 19:   Of Laws Forming the General Spirit, Morals, and Customs of a Nation
  • Book 20:   Of Laws in Relation to Commerce, in its Nature and Distinctions
  • Book 21:   Of Laws in Relation to Commerce, in the Revolutions It Has Met
  • Book 22:   Of Laws in Relation to the Use of Money
  • Book 23:   Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to the Number of Inhabitants
  • Book 24:   Of Laws in Relation to Religion, Considered in Itself, and Its Doctrine
  • Book 25:   Of Laws in Relation to Establishments of Religion and External Polity
  • Book 26:   Of Laws in Relation to the Order of Things Which They Determine
  • Book 27:   Of the Origin and Revolutions of the Roman Laws on Successions
  • Book 28:   Of the Origin and Revolutions of the Civil Laws among the French
  • Book 29:   Of the Manner of Composing Laws
  • Book 30:   Feudal Laws among the Franks in the Establishment of the Monarchy
  • Book 31:   Feudal Laws among the Franks in the Revolutions of their Monarchy

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