The Spirit of Laws (1748)
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
- Title Page, Translator’s Note, Preface, Advertisement
- Book 1: Of Laws in General
- Book 2: Of Laws Directly Derived from the Nature of Government
- Book 3: Of the Principles of the Three Kinds of Government
- Book 4: Education Ought to Relate to the Principles of Government
- Book 5: The Legislator Ought to Relate to the Principle of Government
- Book 6: Civil and Criminal Laws, the Form of Judgments, and Punishments
- Book 7: Sumptuary Laws, Luxury, and the Condition of Women
- Book 8: Of the Corruption of the Principles of the Three Governments
- Book 9: Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to a Defensive Force
- Book 10: Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to Offensive Force
- Book 11: Political Liberty, with Regard to the Constitution
- Book 12: Laws That Form Political Liberty, in Relation to the Subject
- Book 13: Of the Relation Which Taxes and Public Revenues Bear to Liberty
- Book 14: Of Laws in Relation to the Nature of the Climate
- Book 15: Of Civil Slavery in Relation to the Nature of the Climate
- Book 16: How the Laws of Domestic Slavery Relate to the Climate
- Book 17: How the Laws of Political Servitude Relate to the Climate
- Book 18: Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to the Nature of the Soil
- Book 19: Of Laws Forming the General Spirit, Morals, and Customs of a Nation
- Book 20: Of Laws in Relation to Commerce, in its Nature and Distinctions
- Book 21: Of Laws in Relation to Commerce, in the Revolutions It Has Met
- Book 22: Of Laws in Relation to the Use of Money
- Book 23: Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to the Number of Inhabitants
- Book 24: Of Laws in Relation to Religion, Considered in Itself, and Its Doctrine
- Book 25: Of Laws in Relation to Establishments of Religion and External Polity
- Book 26: Of Laws in Relation to the Order of Things Which They Determine
- Book 27: Of the Origin and Revolutions of the Roman Laws on Successions
- Book 28: Of the Origin and Revolutions of the Civil Laws among the French
- Book 29: Of the Manner of Composing Laws
- Book 30: Feudal Laws among the Franks in the Establishment of the Monarchy
- Book 31: Feudal Laws among the Franks in the Revolutions of their Monarchy
The Spirit of Laws (1748) [L’Esprit des Lois], by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu.
Translated from the French by Thomas Nugent (1752), revised by J. V. Prichard, with corrections and additions communicated by the author. Footnotes have been converted to chapter end notes, and spelling has been modernized.
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© Copyright 2003, 2005 Lonang Institute.
Translated from the French by Thomas Nugent (1752), revised by J. V. Prichard, with corrections and additions communicated by the author. Footnotes have been converted to chapter end notes, and spelling has been modernized.
HTML and footnote coding are proprietary to Lonang Institute and are not in the public domain.
All spelling and punctuation modernization is proprietary to Lonang Institute and is not in the public domain.
© Copyright 2003, 2005 Lonang Institute.