L'esperit de les lleis (I)
- Idioma:
- anglès
- Traducció:
- Thomas Nugent
- Completesa:
- Obra completa
- Autoria:
- Escrita per l'autor
- Estat del text:
- Sense soroll d'escaneig detectat (mesura automàtica sobre tot el text, no revisada a mà)
- Extensió:
- ~190.000 paraules · 919 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APAMontesquieu. (n.d.). The Spirit of Laws, Volume 1 [L'esperit de les lleis (I)] (Thomas Nugent, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/montesquieu/the-spirit-of-laws-volume-1
- MLAMontesquieu. The Spirit of Laws, Volume 1 [L'esperit de les lleis (I)]. Translated by Thomas Nugent. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/montesquieu/the-spirit-of-laws-volume-1.
- ChicagoMontesquieu. The Spirit of Laws, Volume 1 [L'esperit de les lleis (I)]. Translated by Thomas Nugent. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/montesquieu/the-spirit-of-laws-volume-1.
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De què tracta
Un estudi de per què cada poble té les lleis que té, i de com repartir el poder perquè cap part no en tingui prou per abusar-ne.
Context i història
Montesquieu hi va dedicar prop de vint anys i el va publicar anònimament a Ginebra el 1748, fora de l'abast de la censura francesa. La divisió entre poder legislatiu, executiu i judicial que hi proposa va passar directament a la Constitució dels Estats Units. Roma el va posar a l'Índex el 1751.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
I have first of all considered mankind, and the result of my thoughts has been, that amidst such an infinite diversity of laws and manners, they were not solely conducted by the caprice of fancy. I have laid down the first principles, and have found that the particular cases follow naturally from them; that the histories of all nations are only consequences of them; and that every particular law is connected with another law, or depends on some other of a more general extent. When I have been obliged to look back into antiquity I have endeavored to assume the spirit of the ancients, lest I should consider those things as alike which are really different, and lest I should miss the difference of those which appear to be alike. I have not drawn my principles from my prejudices, but from the nature of things. xxxii MONTESQUIEU Here a great many truths will not appear till we have seen the chain which connects them with others. The more we enter into particulars, the more we shall perceive the certainty of the principles on which they are founded. I have not even given all these particulars, for who could mention them all without a most insupportable fatigue? The reader will not here meet with any of those bold flights which seem to characterize the works of the present age. When things are examined with never so small a degree of extent, the sallies of imagination must vanish; these generally arise from the mind's collecting all its powers to view only one side of the subject, while it leaves the other unobserved. I write not to censure anything established in any country whatsoever.…