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Showing posts with label montesquieu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label montesquieu. Show all posts
Sunday, May 2, 2010

Origins of the Three Branches of Government in the US Constitution

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A friend asked me to review the antecedents of the three branches of government in the US constitution.  This was not a new idea at the t...
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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Americans Fed Up

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Phil Orenstein of Democracy Project has blogged about Glenn Beck's new protest group. Phil writes: >"When I stood up to speak, ...
Monday, January 26, 2009

Rationality and Decentralization in Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws

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In his famous article "The Nature of the Firm", Ronald Coase claimed that firms exist because they are cost minimizing. It is chea...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

Montesquieu on Infrastructure Improvement

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"The public revenues are a portion that each subject gives of his property, in order to secure or enjoy the remainder. "To fix the...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

Where Montesquieu Was Wrong

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Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws is remarkable. He outlines the basic principles of federalism: the three branches of government; the upper...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Montesquieu on the Democrats

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From Book VIII, section 2 of The Spirit of Laws : "The people fall into this misfortune, when those in whom they confide, desirous of c...
Monday, January 12, 2009

Montesquieu on the Constitution

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Montesquieu published the Spirit of Laws in 1748 and died in 1755, 32 years before the United States Constitution was adopted. The Founding ...

Montesquieu on the Culture War

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In Book IV of The Spirit of Laws Montesquieu discusses how the laws of education ought to animate the principles of the chief political sys...