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" "Government should be set up so that no man need be afraid of another.
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (18 January 1689 – 10 February 1755), also known as Charles de Montesquieu, was a French political thinker who lived during the Enlightenment and is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers.
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- « Ces règles sont un rapport constamment établi. Entre un corps mû et un autre corps mû, c’est suivant les rapports de la masse et de la vitesse que tous les mouvements sont reçus, augmentés, diminués, perdus ; chaque diversité est uniformité, chaque changement est constance. » Montesquieu, De l’Esprit des Lois, 1748, Ch. 1,