{"product_id":"the-spirit-of-laws","title":"The Spirit of Laws","description":"\u003cp\u003eMontesquieu's The Spirit of Laws [l'Esprit des Lois] (1748, 1752 ed.). Translated from French to English by Thomas Nugent. All footnotes are included and have been converted to chapter endnotes. Spelling has been modernized.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n Translator’s Note to the Reader; Preface; Advertisement\u003cbr\u003e\n Bk 1 - Of Laws in General; Bk 2 - Of Laws Directly Derived from the Nature of Government; Bk 3 - Of the Principles of the Three Kinds of Government; Bk 4 - Education Ought to Relate to the Principles of Government; Bk 5 - The Legislator Ought to Relate to the Principle of Government; Bk 6 - Civil and Criminal Laws, the Form of Judgments, and Punishments; Bk 7 - Sumptuary Laws, Luxury, and the Condition of Women; Bk 8 - Of the Corruption of the Principles of the Three Governments; Bk 9 - Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to a Defensive Force; Bk 10 - Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to Offensive Force; Bk 11 - Political Liberty, with Regard to the Constitution; Bk 12 - Laws That Form Political Liberty, in Relation to the Subject; Bk 13 - Of the Relation Which Taxes and Public Revenues Bear to Liberty; Bk 14 - Of Laws in Relation to the Nature of the Climate; Bk 15 - Of Civil Slavery in Relation to the Nature of the Climate; Bk 16 - How the Laws of Domestic Slavery Relate to the Climate; Bk 17 - How the Laws of Political Servitude Relate to the Climate; Bk 18 - Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to the Nature of the Soil; Bk 19 - Of Laws Forming the General Spirit, Morals, and Customs of a Nation; Bk 20 - Of Laws in Relation to Commerce, in its Nature and Distinctions; Bk 21 - Of Laws in Relation to Commerce, in the Revolutions It Has Met; Bk 22 - Of Laws in Relation to the Use of Money; Bk 23 - Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to the Number of Inhabitants; Bk 24 - Of Laws in Relation to Religion, Considered in Itself, and Its Doctrine; Bk 25 - Of Laws in Relation to Establishments of Religion and External Polity; Bk 26 - Of Laws in Relation to the Order of Things Which They Determine; Bk 27 - Of the Origin and Revolutions of the Roman Laws on Successions; Bk 28 - Of the Origin and Revolutions of the Civil Laws among the French; Bk 29 - Of the Manner of Composing Laws; Bk 30 - Feudal Laws among the Franks in the Establishment of the Monarchy; Bk 31 - Feudal Laws among the Franks in the Revolutions of their Monarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54312608366960,"sku":"YSL6488","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/ebook_1435_2d99f8c87f_99c6851b-bc31-4623-93c0-19c7ef44fe7d.jpg?v=1789568130","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/products\/the-spirit-of-laws","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}