Montesquieu: Of Laws Directly Derived from the Nature of Government

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* NOW - Buy this resource online! Click here * Of Laws Directly Derived from the Nature of Government1. Of the Nature of the three different Governments.2. Of the Republican Government, and the Laws in relation to Democracy.3. Of the Laws in relation to the Nature of Aristocracy.4. Of the Relation of Laws to the Nature of Monarchical Government.5. Of the Laws in relation to the Nature of a despotic Government. FOOTNOTES
   1. Compare Aristotle, Politics, vi. 2.
   2. Declamations, 17, 18.
   3. See the Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decline of the Romans, 9.
   4. Pp. 691, 693, ed. Wechel, 1596.
   5. Bk. i.
   6. Bk. iv, art. 15 et seq.
   7. See in the Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decline of the Romans, 9, how this spirit of Servius Tullius was preserved in the republic.
   8. Dionysius Halicarnassus, Eulogium of Isocrates, ii, p. 97, ed. Wechel. Pollux, viii. 10, art. 130.
   9. See Aristotle's Politics, ii. 12.
   10. Ibid, iv. 9.
   11. See the oration of Demosthenes, De Falsa legat., and the oration against Timarchus.
   12. They used even to draw two tickets for each place, one which gave the place, and the other which named the person who was to succeed, in case the first was rejected.
   13. De Leg., i, iii.
   14. They were called leges tabulares; two tablets were presented to each citizen, the first marked with an A, for Antique, or I forbid it; and the other with an U and an R, for Uti rogas, or Be it as you desire.
   15. At Athens the people used to lift up their hands.
   16. As at Venice.
   17. The thirty tyrants at Athens ordered the suffrages of the Areopagites to be public, in order to manage them as they pleased. -- Lysias, Orat. contra Agorat. 8.
   18. See Dionysius Halicarnassus, iv, ix.
   19. See Mr. Addison, Travels to Italy, p. 16.
   20. They were named at first by the consuls.
   21. This is what ruined the republic of Rome. See Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decline of the Romans, 14, 16.
   22. Tournefort, Voyages.
   23. At Lucca the magistrates are chosen only for two months.
   24. Diodorus, xviii, p. 601, ed. Rhodoman.
   25. Ferdinand, king of Aragon, made himself grand master of the orders, and that alone changed the constitution.
   26. The Eastern kings are never without vizirs, says Sir John Chardin.