In 1748, the French political philosopher Montesquieu published his multi-volume work, “The Spirit of the Laws,” in which he asserted that in a republic, political authority must be divided between ...
It is not an exaggeration to say that those rules, and the system that was designed to operate according to them, is in the ...
Apple has removed a security feature from iPhones in the UK after the government asked for a “backdoor” into its devices, ...
When politics infiltrates the judiciary, legal objectivity and trust inevitably collapse. Montesquieu, in “The Spirit of Law” ...
The checks and balances that hold a functioning democracy together may be coming under threat in the United States ...
But it was the Romans who developed a working model of checks and balances. The constitution of the Roman republic was ...
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JD Vance Comment Questioning Courts' Authority Sparks BacklashFounding Father James Madison quoted Montesquieu in Federalist Paper #47, which lays out the ideals of the three branches of government, saying: "'There can be no liberty where the legislative and ...
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