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"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner."

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About Montesquieu

Montesquieu was a French political philosopher and jurist of the Enlightenment. He is best known for The Spirit of Laws and for his influential articulation of the separation of powers in government.

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