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Comment: “Laws are any necessary relations arising from the nature of a thing.” (Montesquieu)

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The line opens The Spirit of the Laws (1748) of Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu; in Thomas Nugent's translation, laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. Law is treated not as a sovereign's command or a timeless code but as a relation to be discovered,…

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  • Law as Relation
  • From Relations to Forms of Government
  • Significance for Constitutional Democracy
  • The Critique
  • Indian Illustration
  • Conclusion
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