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A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws

To Which Are Annexed Observations on the Thirty-First Book by the Late M. Condorcet

by Antoine Destutt de Tracy · 1811 · 304 pages

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Originally translated and edited by Thomas Jefferson, this treatise provides a rigorous critique of Montesquieu’s political theory. Destutt de Tracy argues against monarchical government in favor of representative democracy and a laissez-faire economic order. The work was first published in the United States in 1811 due to political censorship in Napoleonic France.

Book Details

Published

1811

Pages

304

Language

fr

ISBN

9780865979239

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