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The Spirit of the Laws
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The Translator to the Reader
CONTENTS
PREFACE
ADVERTISEMENT
1.
Book I. Of Laws in General.
2.
Book II. Of Laws Directly Derived from the Nature of Government.
3.
Book III. Of the Principles of the Three Kinds of Government.
4.
Book IV. That the Laws of Education Ought to Be in Relation to the Principles of Government.
5.
Book V. That the Laws Given by the Legislator Ought to Be in Relation to the Principle of Government.
6.
Book VI. Consequences of the Principles of Different Governments with Respect to the Simplicity of Civil and Criminal Laws, the Form of Judgments, and the Inflicting of Punishments.
7.
Book VII. Consequences of the Different Principles of the Three Governments with Respect to Sumptuary Laws, Luxury, and the Condition of Women.
8.
Book VIII. Of the Corruption of the Principles of the Three Governments.
9.
Book IX., Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to a Defensive Force.
10.
Book X. Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to Offensive Force.
11.
Book XI. Of the Laws Which Establish Political Liberty, with Regard to the Consti- tution.
12.
Book XII. Of the Laws That Form Political Liberty, in Relation to the Subject.
13.
Book XIII. Of the Relation Which the Levying of Taxes and the Greatness of the Public Revenues Bear to Liberty.
14.
Book XIV. Of Laws in Relation to the Nature of the Climate.
15.
Book XV. In What Manner the Laws of Civil Slavery Relate to the Nature of the Climate.
16.
Book XVI. How the Laws of Domestic Slavery Bear a Relation to the Nature of the Climate.
17.
Book XVII., How the Laws of Political Servitude Bear a Relation to the Nature of the Climate.
18.
Book XVIII. Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to the Nature of the Soil.
19.
Book XIX. Of Laws in Relation to the Principles Which Form the General Spirit, Morals, and Customs of a Nation.
20.
Book XX. Of Laws in Relation to Commerce, Considered in its Nature and Distinctions.
21.
Book XXI. Of Laws in relation to Commerce, considered in the Revolutions it has met with in the World.
22.
Book XXII. Of Laws in Relation to the Use of Money.
23.
Book XXIII. Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to the Number of Inhabitants.
24.
Book XXIV. Of Laws in relation to Religion Considered in Itself, and in its Doctrines.
25.
Book XXV. Of Laws in Relation to the Establishment of Religion and its External Polity.
26.
Book XXVI. Of Laws in Relation to the Order of Things Which They Determine.
27.
Book XXVII. Of the Origin and Revolutions of the Roman Laws on Successions.
28.
Book XXVIII. Of the Origin and Revolutions of the Civil Laws among the French.
29.
Book XXIX. Of the Manner of Composing Laws.
29.1.
1. Of the Spirit of a Legislator.
29.2.
2. The same Subject continued.
29.3.
3. That the Laws which seem to deviate from the Views of the Legislator are frequently agreeable to them.
29.4.
4. Of the Laws contrary to the Views of the Legislator.
29.5.
5. The same Subject continued.
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29.6.
6. The Laws which appear the same have not always the same Effect.
29.7.
7. The same Subject continued.
29.8.
8. That Laws which appear the same were not always made through the same Motive.
29.10.
9. That the Greek and Roman Laws punished Suicide, but not through the same Motive.
29.10.
10. That Laws which seem contrary proceed sometimes from the same Spirit.
29.11.
11. How to compare two different Systems of Laws.
29.12.
12. That Laws which appear the same are sometimes really different.
29.13.
13. That we must not separate Laws from the End for which they were made: of the Roman Laws on Theft.
29.14.
14. That we must not separate the Laws from the Circumstances in which they were made.
29.15.
15. That sometimes it is proper the Law should amend itself.
29.16.
16. Things to be observed in the composing of Laws.
29.17.
17. A bad Method of giving Laws.
29.18.
18. Of the Ideas of Uniformity.
29.19.
19. Of Legislators.
30.
Book XXX. Theory of the Feudal Laws among the Franks in the Relation They Bear to the Establishment of the Monarchy.
31.
Book XXXI. Theory of the Feudal Laws among the Franks, in the Relation They Bear to the Revolutions of their Monarchy.
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"De Falsa legatione."
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