Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-xxii

Acknowledgments

pp xxiii-xxiv

Translator’s Preface

pp xxv-xxvi

Foreword

pp xxvii-xxviii

The Spirit of The Laws by Montesquieu

pp 1-1

Concerning The Spirit of The Laws

pp 2-5

Book One - Concerning Laws in General

pp 6-13

Book Two - Concerning The Laws Which Derive Directly From The Nature of The Government

pp 14-25

Book Three - Concerning The Principles of The Three Governments

pp 26-37

Book Four - That Education Laws Ought to be Relative to The Principles of The Government

pp 39-49

Book Five - The Legislator’S Laws Must be Relative to The Principle of The Government

pp 50-81

Book Six - Consequences of The Principles of Different Governments, In Relation to The Simplicity of Civil and Criminal Laws, The Method of Judgment, and The Establishment of Penalties

pp 82-105

Book Seven - Consequences of The Differing Principles of The Three Governments, In Relation to Sumptuary Laws, Luxury, and The Status of Women

pp 106-121

Book Eight - Concerning The Corruption of The Principles of The Three Governments

pp 122-139

Book Nine - Concerning The Laws in The Relation They Have with Defensive Strength

pp 140-147

Book Ten - Concerning The Laws in Their Relation to Offensive Force

pp 148-163

Book Eleven - About Laws Which Create Political Liberty, In its Relation to The Constitution

pp 164-199

Book Twelve - About The Laws Which Create Political Liberty, in its Relation to The Citizen

pp 200-225

Book Thirteen - About The Relations which The Levying of Taxes and The Extent of Public Revenues Hold with Liberty

pp 226-239

Book Fourteen - Concerning The Laws, In The Relation they have with The Climate’S Nature

pp 240-255

Book Fifteen - How The Laws of Civil Slavery have Some Relation to The Nature of The Climate

pp 256-273

Book Sixteen - How The Laws of Domestic Slavery Have Some Relation to The Nature of The Climate

pp 274-287

Book Seventeen - How The Laws of Political Servitude are Related to The Nature of The Climate

pp 288-295

Book Eighteen - Concerning The Laws, in The Relation which They have to The Nature of The Terrain

pp 296-319

Book Nineteen - Concerning The Laws in The Relation which They have with The Principles that Create The General Spirit, The Morals, and The Manners of a Nation

pp 320-345

Book Twenty - About The Laws in The Relation that they have with Commerce, Considered in its Nature and its Distinctions

pp 346-361

Book Twenty-One - About the Laws in the Relation they have with Commerce, Considered under the Revolutions which there have been in The World

pp 362-407

Book Twenty-Two - About The Laws in the Relation that they have with the Use of Money

pp 408-437