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This is almost as huge as Leviathan and possibly scarier...

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I love how Montesquieu makes DIRECT rebuttals. Locke, that dear old fellow, addresses Hobbes' arguments, but not Hobbes himself. Montesquieu says, "Hobbes says X argument. HE'S WRONG. I shall now show you WHY."

To whoever wrote the immensely illuminating (and legible!) notes in my used copy: Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I love you.

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I would've given this 4 stars, but I had to read about 150 pages in one night, so...I can't honestly say that I "really liked it". Too bad though, because I really like Montesquieu's style. He reminds me of Chesterton...

Plus, Montesquieu has the most hilarious quotes of any political theorist EVER! Like "if [a republic:] is composed of happy people, it will be very happy." Or his example: "Charles XII, meeting some resistance in the senate of Sweden..., wrote that he would send one of his boots to command it. The boot would have governed like a despotic king."

Hobbes never wrote about happy people...or despotic boots...

It's like I've left the dark, dank, and depressing stomach of Leviathan and stepped right into the light and bliss of Montesquieu's Wonderland, where people are happy and boots are Kings!

I think these political analyses have driven me completely insane.