Book VI. Consequences of the Principles of Different Governments with Respect to the Simplicity of C...
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12. Of the Power of Punishments. Experience shows that in countries remarkable for the lenity of th...
Book VII. Consequences of the Different Principles of the Three Governments with Respect to Sumptuar...
9. Of the Condition or State of Women in different Governments. In monarchies women are subject to ...
Book VIII. Of the Corruption of the Principles of the Three Governments 1. General Idea of this Boo...
12. The same Subject continued. In Rome the judges were chosen at first from the order of senators....
Book IX. Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to a Defensive Force 1. In what Manner Republics provide...
Book X. Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to Offensive Force 1. Of offensive Force. Offensive force...
10. Of one Monarchy that subdues another. Sometimes one monarchy subdues another. The smaller the l...
Book XI. Of the Laws Which Establish Political Liberty, with Regard to the Constitution 1. A genera...
It is possible that the law, which is clearsighted in one sense, and blind in another, might, in so...
No people were so easily moved by public spectacles as the Romans. That of the empurpled body of Lu...
Book XII. Of the Laws That Form Political Liberty, in Relation to the Subject 1. Idea of this Book....
In the manifesto of the late Czarina against the family of the D'Olgoruckys,35 one of these princes...
27. Of the Manners of a Monarch. The manners of a prince contribute as much as the laws themselves t...