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First: His major contribution to political thought was his book ''The Spirit of the Laws." It contributed ideas like the priority of rule of law and the importance of separation of powers to the modern fields of jurisprudence and political theory.
Second: He conceived the idea of separating government authority into the three major branches: executive, legislative and judicial. This perspective significantly influenced the authors of the Constitution in establishing laws and division of duties, and also in the inclusion of provisions to preserve individual liberties.

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First-He believed the administrative powers were divided into the executive, the judicial and the legislative. His writings detailed that the three powers should be separate from one another and dependent upon one another. Montesquieu believed, no power should become stronger than another.
Second- He called the idea of dividing government power into three branches the "separation of powers." He thought it most important to create separate branches of government with equal but different powers. That way, the government would avoid placing too much power with one individual or group of individuals.
Third-Montesquieu sought to identify the basic principles underlying how laws work, how they evolve, and how they differ from country to country and culture to culture.

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Pope Benedict XIV respected Montesquieu, but various bishops did not, and they placed on the Church's index of forbidden books Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws, published in 1748. But independence of thought prevailed and the book was a success, going into 22 editions.

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-Quote: "There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion."
-Analyze: The strongest nation is the one that listens to its government with devotion.

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-Quote: "To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them."
-Analyze: We think he means that to be successful in life it is better to help other individuals up along the way then rather be above of them.

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-Baron de  Montesquieu, was a highly influential political thinker during the Age of Enlightenment. At age 11, he was sent to the Oratorian Collège de Juilly near Paris to study literature, the sciences and other precepts of a classical education.
-He moved to Paris, he moved Paris to continue to publish, switching to political treatises such as a consideration of the fall of Rome.
-Now socially and financially secure, he devoted himself to his passions, including Roman law, history, biology, geography and physics. He believed women were supposedly unfit as heads of the home while fit to govern as written in The Spirit of Laws: "It is against reason and against nature for women to be mistresses in the house...but not for them to govern an empire

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Baron was born in January 18, 1689. However he died because of a fever in Paris on February 10, 1755.

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birth place- La Brède, Gironde, France