A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, Prepared for Press from the Original Manuscript in the Hands of the Publisher (1811): To Which Are Annexed, Observations on the Thirty-First Book, by the Late M. Condorcet. and Two Letters of Hel... by Antoine Destutt de Tracy

A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, Prepared for Press from the Original Manuscript in the Hands of the Publisher (1811): To Which Are Annexed, Observations on the Thirty-First Book, by the Late M. Condorcet. and Two Letters of Hel...

Antoine Destutt de Tracy

306 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

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Commentaire sur l'Esprit des Lois de Montesquieu (1806) is a critique of Montesquieu's pessimistic appraisal of democracy in De l'Esprit des Lois. While minister to France in the 1780s Jefferson saw this work in manuscript. It so impressed him tha...

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