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The Spirit of the Laws
[title page]
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.
15.1.
1. Of civil Slavery.
15.2.
2. Origin of the Right of Slavery among the Roman Civilians.
15.3.
3. Another Origin of the Right of Slavery.
15.4.
4. Another Origin of the Right of Slavery.
15.5.
5. Of the Slavery of the Negroes.
15.6.
6. The true Origin of the Right of Slavery.
15.7.
7. Another Origin of the Right of Slavery.
15.8.
8. Inutility of Slavery among us.
15.9.
9. Several Kinds of Slavery.
15.10.
10. Regulations necessary in respect to Slavery.
15.11.
11. Abuses of Slavery.
15.12.
12. Danger from the Multitude of Slaves.
15.13.
13. Of armed Slaves.
15.14.
14. The same Subject continued.
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Footnotes
15.15.
15. Precautions to be used in Moderate Governments.
15.16.
16. Regulations between Masters and Slaves.
15.17.
17. Of Enfranchisements.
15.18.
18. Of Freedmen and Eunuchs.
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.
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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The Spirit of the Laws
THE SPIRIT OF LAWS
by
By [Charles de Secondat,] Baron de Montesquieu
Translated from the French by
Thomas Nugent
Revised by
J. V. Prichard
New York
D. Appleton and Company, 1912
The Spirit of the Laws