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Montesquieu University (French: Université Montesquieu), also known as Bordeaux IV (French: Bordeaux Quatre), was a French university, based in Pessac, the suburbs of Bordeaux. In 2014, it merged with the Bordeaux 1 and Bordeaux 2 to form the University of Bordeaux .
The University of Bordeaux is a major multidisciplinary research university, with deep regional roots that reach out to the international level.
Montesquieu campus. Served by tramway line B, this campus, which is currently being renovated, is dedicated to law, economics and management studies. Built in 1965, the campus has recently become home to monumental works of street art.
- Commentary
- Notes on England
- Annotations to Commentary and Translation
Introduction
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755), is best known for The Spirit of Laws (De l’esprit des lois), published in 1748. This was arguably the first major work of legal science in the modern sense of ‘science’ – an exercise in systematic and comparative observation.1 The work’s fame today, however, rests on a doctrine said to be presented in section 6 of Book 11: that of ‘separation of powers’ – although ‘division of powers’, which is sometimes preferred, mo...
Juristic and Political Interpretations
Montesquieu’s discussion of division of powers has entered into constitutional theory and constitution framing throughout the world.4 In the process, Eisenmann has found, it has received two, incompatible interpretations.5
England in The Spirit of Laws
Books 11 and 12 of The Spirit of Laws form a pair, in which Montesquieu examines the content and requirements of ‘political liberty’: in Book 11 as to laws that establish political liberty in its relation to the constitution15 and in Book 12 as to those that establish it in relation to the individual. He reviews the various meanings of ‘liberty’ (11.2) and chooses to understand political liberty as ‘the right to do everything permitted by law’ (11.3). This is with an eye to the constitution:...
I left The Hague on the last day of October 1729,59 making the voyage with Lord Chesterfield,60 who very kindly offered me a berth on his yacht. Londoners eat a great deal of meat, which makes them very strong; but they snuff it at around 40 or 45. Nothing is so frightful as the streets of London. They are very dirty; their paving is so badly maint...
* Division of Law, Macquarie University, Sydney 2109, Australia; iain.stewart@mq.edu.au. 1 See generally S Goyard-Fabre La philosophie du droit de Montesquieu (Paris Klincksieck 1973) and Montesquieu: la nature, les lois, la liberté(Paris PUF 1993). 2 Shackleton (Montesquieu p 285) says that the first draft of the section was already complete by th...
The “Université de Bordeaux” (France) has a long-lasting university tradition dating back to 1441. It was newly established on the 1st of January 2014, following the merger of three universities: Université Bordeaux 1, Université Bordeaux Segalen and Université Bordeaux Montesquieu.Ranked among the top universities in France for the ...
Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu [a] (18 January 1689 – 10 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, [b] was a French judge, man of letters, historian, and political philosopher .
Jul 2, 2024 · Montesquieu (born January 18, 1689, Château La Brède, near Bordeaux, France—died February 10, 1755, Paris) was a French political philosopher whose principal work, The Spirit of Laws, was a major contribution to political theory.
