| Machiavelli relied heavily on the dichotomy between republican and princely government, Montesquieu on a trichotomy of republics, monarchies, and despotisms. |
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| Likewise Montesquieu in his Essay on Taste owes him more than is avowed. |
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| He tends toward the wonky, goes heavy on historical references, and likes to quote folks like Montesquieu. |
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| This conception of law would find its culmination in the ideas of Montesquieu. |
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| The United States Constitution, ratified June 21, 1788, was influenced by the writings of Polybius, Locke, Montesquieu, and others. |
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| His father died in 1713 and he became a ward of his uncle, the Baron de Montesquieu. |
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| However, like many of his generation, Montesquieu also held a number of views that might today be judged controversial. |
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| Among the most prominent political theorists of the late eighteenth century were William Blackstone, John Locke, and Montesquieu. |
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| Supreme Court Justices, the ultimate interpreters of the Constitution, have cited to Montesquieu throughout the Court's history. |
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| Montesquieu took the view that the Roman Republic had powers separated so that no one could usurp complete power. |
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| The Americans closely followed English and Scottish political ideas, as well as some French thinkers such as Montesquieu. |
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| Charles Montesquieu wrote a work Reflections on the Causes of the Grandeur and Declension of the Romans. |
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| In the British constitutional system, Montesquieu discerned a separation of powers among the monarch, Parliament, and the courts of law. |
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| Dicey, despite its constitution being the one to which Montesquieu originally referred. |
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| Montesquieu withdrew from the practice of law to devote himself to study and writing. |
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| Montesquieu was somewhat ahead of his time in advocating major reform of slavery in The Spirit of the Laws. |
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| Some, such as Montesquieu, also examined how the functions of government, such as legislative, executive, and judicial, might appropriately be separated into branches. |
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| Like Montesquieu, Gibbon paid tribute to the virtue of Roman citizens. |
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| Montesquieu was almost always in error with the learned, because he was not learned, but he was almost always right against the fanatics and the promoters of slavery. |
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| The term tripartite system is commonly ascribed to French Enlightenment political philosopher Baron de Montesquieu, although he did not use such a term. |
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| Nay, what is your Montesquieu himself but a clever infant spelling Letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic Book, the lexicon of which lies in Eternity, in Heaven? |
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| Montesquieu devotes four chapters of The Spirit of the Laws to a discussion of England, a contemporary free government, where liberty was sustained by a balance of powers. |
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| Polybius' political analysis has influenced republican thinkers from Cicero to Charles de Montesquieu to the Founding Fathers of the United States. |
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