WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -“When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty.” Detailed analysis of Montesquieu’s words should not be allowed to blind us to what he had to say.

Detailed explanation-2: –Montesquieu’s writings sparked the French Revolution by instilling a desire for liberty.-Before the French Revolution, Montesquieu existed. He was a nobleman who acted as a member of a local French legislature to shield citizens from the French King’s abuses.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the view of Montesquieu: “When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or int he same body or Magistrate, there can be no liberty. Again, there is no liberty if the judicial power is not separated from the Legislative and Executive power.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first modern formulation of the doctrine was that of the French political philosopher Montesquieu in De l’esprit des lois (1748; The Spirit of Laws), although the English philosopher John Locke had earlier argued that legislative power should be divided between king and Parliament.