What Montesquieu missed: Why democracy must be protected from economic power
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When Baron de Montesquieu published The Spirit of the Laws in 1748, he provided the intellectual blueprint for modern constitutional democracy. Montesquieu lived in an age when tyranny came primarily from kings.
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