HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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advocated equality for men and women
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believed that the government needed to serve the general will of the people
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believed that an absolute monarch could rule and keep the peace
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believed that a good government would need to have a system of checks and balances to avoid corruption
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Detailed explanation-1: -In The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu proposed a division of power within the government between the legislative, the executive and the judiciary.
Detailed explanation-2: -He was among the most influential thinkers of the French Enlightenment. He criticized French society and especially the excesses of absolutism. Montesquieu was born on La Brède near Bordeaux, studied law in Bordeaux where he inhereted the Barony of Montesquieu and became a member of parliament.
Detailed explanation-3: -“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”
Detailed explanation-4: -In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.