[Publius]

An Anti-Federalist paper we didn’t cover.

[MamaTexan]

It is remarked by Montesquieu, in treating of republics

The Founders relied a great deal on Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws. A detailed treatise on the different forms of government.

On of my favorites:

Of the Simplicity of Criminal Laws in different Governments
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments:
in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
The Spirit of the Laws, Book VI
By Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

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Thanks for the ping, BTW! :-)

[loveliberty2]

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