Analysis Of Louis De Montesquieu

Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755) was a French philosophe and political thinker who began his works in 1721 with the publishing of Persian Letters. Although he originally published his work anonymously, he later received credit for literary accomplishment. Persian Letters was a series of letters written between two Persian nobles who travel to Paris from 1711 to 1720. The letters were successful and appealing to Europeans due to the interesting and humorous perspective of the foreigners to European culture and ideas. Throughout the novel, Montesquieu's views on religion, society, and political structure. It is important to note that Baron de Montesquieu was a deist, who believed that a god exists and had created the universe along with its laws of nature, but also believed that the god does not intervene with worldly affairs because it governs itself through the laws of nature. His belief can be seen in letter 84 of Persian Letters where he writes about the human nature of justice and how God must be either just or purely wicked. This is where his idea of the separation of powers begins to develop. He states that "men act unjustly, because it is their interest to do so" and that doing an unjust deed is a result of self-interest. Therefore, God has no reason to be unjust because He has no need of anything else and is self-sufficient, but if he is unjust then He would do so without reason and have no motive for such wickedness. It is in this letter that Montesquieu believes that justice is immortal and that all humans are affected by it, despite their difference in religion or views on God. In 1748, Montesquieu published a treatise called The Spirit of the Laws. In his most influential work, ...

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...o creates laws and the judicial system still reviews them. Montesquieu's idea of separation of power was to achieve the proper amount of equality, justice, and virtue for the citizens in a tripartite system of government. It is evident that the Framers of the United States Constitution drew inspiration from the works of this eighteenth-century philosophe, in which his greatest contribution led to the creation of a democratic republic. The ideas of justice and virtue, which is the main principle in any republic, depends on its citizens that they put their country's interest ahead of themselves for the well-being of the state. This remains true and a prominent theme in the US Constitution and its amendments, which provide a base rule and guidelines for all to abide by, thereby granting all of its citizens the peace of mind necessarily for justice to exists.