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The Spirit of the Laws

  
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The Translator to the Reader
  
CONTENTS
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PREFACE
  
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Book I. Of Laws in General.
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Book II. Of Laws Directly Derived from the Nature of Government.
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1. Of the Nature of the three different Governments.
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2. Of the Republican Government, and the Laws in relation to Democracy.
  
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Footnotes
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3. Of the Laws in relation to the Nature of Aristocracy.
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4. Of the Relation of Laws to the Nature of Monarchical Government.
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5. Of the Laws in relation to the Nature of a despotic Government.
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Book III. Of the Principles of the Three Kinds of Government.
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Book IV. That the Laws of Education Ought to Be in Relation to the Principles of Government.
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Book V. That the Laws Given by the Legislator Ought to Be in Relation to the Principle of Government.
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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.
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Book VII. Consequences of the Different Principles of the Three Governments with Respect to Sumptuary Laws, Luxury, and the Condition of Women.
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Book VIII. Of the Corruption of the Principles of the Three Governments.
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Book IX., Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to a Defensive Force.
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Book X. Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to Offensive Force.
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Book XI. Of the Laws Which Establish Political Liberty, with Regard to the Consti- tution.
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Book XII. Of the Laws That Form Political Liberty, in Relation to the Subject.
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Book XIII. Of the Relation Which the Levying of Taxes and the Greatness of the Public Revenues Bear to Liberty.
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Book XIV. Of Laws in Relation to the Nature of the Climate.
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Book XV. In What Manner the Laws of Civil Slavery Relate to the Nature of the Climate.
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Book XVI. How the Laws of Domestic Slavery Bear a Relation to the Nature of the Climate.
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Book XVII., How the Laws of Political Servitude Bear a Relation to the Nature of the Climate.
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Book XVIII. Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to the Nature of the Soil.
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Book XIX. Of Laws in Relation to the Principles Which Form the General Spirit, Morals, and Customs of a Nation.
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Book XX. Of Laws in Relation to Commerce, Considered in its Nature and Distinctions.
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Book XXI. Of Laws in relation to Commerce, considered in the Revolutions it has met with in the World.
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Book XXII. Of Laws in Relation to the Use of Money.
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Book XXIII. Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to the Number of Inhabitants.
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Book XXIV. Of Laws in relation to Religion Considered in Itself, and in its Doctrines.
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Book XXV. Of Laws in Relation to the Establishment of Religion and its External Polity.
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Book XXVI. Of Laws in Relation to the Order of Things Which They Determine.
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Book XXVII. Of the Origin and Revolutions of the Roman Laws on Successions.
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Book XXVIII. Of the Origin and Revolutions of the Civil Laws among the French.
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Book XXIX. Of the Manner of Composing Laws.
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Book XXX. Theory of the Feudal Laws among the Franks in the Relation They Bear to the Establishment of the Monarchy.
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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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Footnotes

[1]

Compare Aristotle, Politics, vi. 2.

[2]

Declamations, 17 and 18.

[3]

See the "Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decline of the Romans," cap. 9.

[4]

pp. 691, 692, ed. Wechel, 1596.

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Bk. i.

[6]

Bk. iv, art. 15 et seq.

[7]

See in the "Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decline of the Romans," 9, how this spirit of Servius Tullius was preserved in the republic.

[8]

Dionysius Halicarnassus, "Eulogium of Isocrates," ii, p. 97, ed. Wechel. Pollux, viii. 10, art. 130.

[9]

See Aristotle's Politics, ii. 12.

[10]

Ibid, iv. 9.

[11]

See the oration of Demosthenes, De Falsa legat., and the oration against Timarchus.

[12]

They used even to draw two tickets for each place, one which gave the place, and the other which named the person who was to succeed, in case the first was rejected.

[13]

De Leg., i, iii.

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They were called leges tabulares; two tablets were presented to each citizen, the first marked with an A, for Antiquo, or I forbid it; and the other with an U and an R, for Uti rogas, or Be it as you desire.

[15]

At Athens the people used to lift up their hands.

[16]

As at Venice.

[17]

The thirty tyrants at Athens ordered the suffrages of the Areopagites to be public, in order to manage them as they pleased. -- Lysias, Orat. contra Agorat. 8.

[18]

See Dionysius Halicarnassus, iv, ix.

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