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To: ProgressingAmerica

Charles Baron de Montesquieu made a real impression on many of our Founders. A Frenchman, he wrote Spirit of the Laws around 1752. Numerous Founders both Federalist and Anti-Federalist quote his work.

It would be an interesting work to fully describe how he influenced the founding our Country. He is indirectly a founder.

BTW, he professed Christianity and denounced Deism.


86 posted on 08/22/2022 11:59:12 AM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: AlmaKing

That one actually already exists, Montesquieu.

https://librivox.org/the-spirit-of-laws-volume-1-by-montesquieu/

I had thought of including the philosophers who preceded the Founders, but many are there already.

https://librivox.org/two-treatises-of-civil-government-by-john-locke/

https://librivox.org/the-wealth-of-nations-book-1-by-adam-smith/
(All 5 books are there under Adam Smith)

And these
https://librivox.org/the-federalist-papers-by-alexander-hamilton-john-jay-and-james-madison-2

https://librivox.org/the-anti-federalist-papers-by-patrick-henry/

I was not involved in the creation of any of these, at any stage.


87 posted on 08/22/2022 12:04:35 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (A man's rights rest in 3 boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box.- Frederick Douglass)
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