Montesquieu and his legacy

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Montesquieu and His Legacy

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. What Montesquieu Taught:“Perfection Does Not Concern Men or Things Universally�

Part I. Morals and Manners in the Work of Montesquieu

2. Morals and Manners in Montesquieu�s Analysis of the British System of Liberty

3. Honor, Interest, Virtue: The Affective Foundations of the Political in The Spirit of Laws

4. On the Proper Use of the Stick: The Spirit of Laws and the Chinese Empire

5. Montesquieu on Power: Beyond Checks and Balances Part II. Montesquieu�s Legacy in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Political Thought6. Montesquieu�s Constitutional Legacies

7. Montesquieu�s Humanité and Rousseau�s Pitié

8. Montesquieu and Tocqueville as Philosophical Historians: Liberty, Determinism, and the Prospects for Freedom

9. Montesquieu and the Scottish Enlightenment

Part III. Montesquieu and Comparative Constitutional Law

10. Montesquieu and the Renaissance of Comparative Public Law 11. Free Speech and The Spirit of Laws in Canada and the United States: A Test of Montesquieu�s Approach to Comparative Law12. Montesquieu�s Persian Letters: A Timely Classic

13. Montesquieu and Us

14. Montesquieu and the Future of Liberalism

15. Montesquieu and Liberalism: The Question of Pluralism

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