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    A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws

    Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy

    A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, by Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy (1754–1836), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.

    Chapters
    45
    Variants
    45
    Genre
    Political Theory
    Difficulty
    Advanced

    Chapters

    1. 01To his fellow citizens of the United States of America.prose
    2. 02Preliminary Observationsprose
    3. 03Book I: Of Laws in Generalprose
    4. 04Book II: Of Laws Originating Directly from the Nature of the Government.prose
    5. 05Book III: Of the Principles of the Three Forms of Government.prose
    6. 06Book IV: The Laws Relating To Education, Should Be Congenial with the Principles of the Government.prose
    7. 07Book V: Laws Formed by the Legislature Should Be Consistent with the Principles of the Government.prose
    8. 08Book VI: Consequences of the Principles of Different Governments, in Relation to the Simplicity of Civil and Criminal Laprose
    9. 09Book VII: Consequences of the Different Principles of the Three Forms of Government, Relative to Sumptuary Laws, to Luxuprose
    10. 10Book VIII: Of the Corruption of the Principle in Each of the Three Forms of Government.prose
    11. 11Book IX: Of Laws Relative to the Defensive Force.prose
    12. 12Book X: Of Laws Relative to the Offensive Force.prose
    13. 13Book XI: Of the Laws Which Establish Public Liberty, In Relation to the Constitution, Chap. I: Is the Problem Solved, Asprose
    14. 14Book XI, Chap. II: How Can the Proposed Problem Be Solved?prose
    15. 15Book XII: Of Laws That Establish Political Liberty in Relation to the Citizen.prose
    16. 16A Review, On the Twelve First Books of the Spirit of Laws.prose
    17. 17Book XIII: Of the Relation Which Taxes, and the Amount of the Public Revenue, Have to Public Liberty.prose
    18. 18Book XVI How the Laws of Domestic Slavery Relate to the Climate, Book XVII How the Laws of Political Servitude Relate toprose
    19. 19Book XVIII: Of Laws in Relation to the Nature of the Soil.prose
    20. 20Book XIX: Of Laws in Relation to the Principles which Form the General Dispositions, Morals, and Manners of a Nation.prose
    21. 21Book XX: Of Laws in Relation to Commerce, Considered in Its Nature and Different Forms, Book XXI Of Laws in Relation to prose
    22. 22Book XXII: Of Laws in Relation to the Use of Money.prose
    23. 23Book XXIII: Of Laws in Relation to Populationprose
    24. 24Book XXIV: Of Laws in Relation to a Religious Establishment, Its Practical Operation, and Doctrines, Book XXV Of Laws inprose
    25. 25Book XXVI: Of Laws in Relation to the Nature of Things upon which They Decide.prose
    26. 26Book XXVII: Of the Origin and Revolutions of the Roman Laws on Succession, Book XXVIII Of the Origin and Revolutions of prose
    27. 27Book XXIX: Of the Manner in which Laws Should Be Composed.prose
    28. 28Book XXX: Theory of the Feudal Laws among the Franks, Relative to the Establishment of Monarchy, Book XXXI Theory of Feuprose
    29. 29Book XXIX.: On the Manner of Forming Laws, Chap. II.... Continuation of the same subject.prose
    30. 30Chap. III.... That laws which appear to deviate from the intentions of the legislator, are often conformable thereto.prose
    31. 31Chap. IV.... Of laws which clash with the views of the legislator.prose
    32. 32Chap. V.... Continuation of the sane subject.prose
    33. 33Chap. VI.... Laws which appear to be the same have not uniformly the same effect.prose
    34. 34Chap. VII.... Continuation of the same subject. The necessity of composing laws in a proper manner.prose
    35. 35Chap. IX.... The Greek and Roman laws punished suicide from different motives.prose
    36. 36Chap. X.... Laws which appear contradictory, sometimes originate in the same spirit.prose
    37. 37Chap. XI.... How shall we be able to compare and judge between two laws.prose
    38. 38Chap. XIII.... We should not separate the laws from the purposes for which they were established: of the Roman laws agaiprose
    39. 39Chap. XIV.... Laws should not be separated from the circumstances in which they were established.prose
    40. 40Chap. XVI.... Matters to be observed in composing laws.prose
    41. 41Chap. XVII.... Bad manner of enacting laws.prose
    42. 42Chap. XVIII.... Of ideas of uniformity.prose
    43. 43Chap. XIX.... Of legislators.prose
    44. 44Letter I.: Letter of Helvetius to President Montesquieuprose
    45. 45Letter II.: Helvetius to A. M. Saurin.prose