 Would it not be extremely difficult to apply to Spain the Code of political, civil and religious liberty of England? It would be even more difficult to adapt to Venezuela the laws of North America. Does not the Spirit of Laws state that they must be suited...  A Review of the Governments of Sparta and Athens - Page 178by Sir William Drummond - 1794 - 282 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Howard Jason Rogers - 1906 - 902 pages
...dogmatism, and we must not forget what Montesquieu himself wrote, that political laws must be so much adapted to the people for whom they are made that it is a very strange case if those of one nation can be convenient for another. It is useless to stop at other scientific... | |
 | Simón Bolívar - 1919 - 56 pages
...to Venezuela the laws of North America. Does not the Spirit of Laws state that they must be suited to the people for whom they are made; that it is a great coincidence when the laws of one nation suit another; that laws must bear relation to the physical... | |
 | Pan American Union - 1930 - 232 pages
...Venezuela the laws of North America. Does not I'Esprit des Lois state that the laws must be suited to the people for whom they are made; that it is a great coincidence when the laws of one nation suit another; that laws must bear relation to the physical... | |
 | Annelise Riles - 2001 - 274 pages
...legal relativism, formulated at the end of Book I in no uncertain terms: '[Laws] should be so specific to the people for whom they are made, that it is a great coincidence if those of one nation can suit another. They should be relative to the physical... | |
 | Paul O. Carrese - 2010 - 350 pages
...laws, and judging in a way that echoes his maxim from book 1, that laws "ought to be so appropriate to the people for whom they are made that it is a very great chance if the laws of one nation can suit another" (1.3, 237). The only other explicit reference to judging in book 19 similarly suggests... | |
 | Svetozar Minkov, Stéphane Douard - 2006 - 416 pages
...this point home by telling us that, "Political and civil laws should be [doivent etre] so appropriate to the people for whom they are made, that it is a very great piece of luck if those of one nation are suitable to another" (1.3.12). With this last remark, Montesquieu... | |
 | Nels Andrew Nelson Cleven - 1927 - 824 pages
...to Venezuela the laws of North America. Does not the Spirit of Laws state that they must be suited to the people for whom they are made ; that it is a great coincidence when the laws of one nation suit another ; that laws must bear relation to the physical... | |
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