Montesquieu's signature work in political science was The Spirit of Laws.

-Truth is preached without compromise, but also without a spirit of law and judgment.

Montesquieu, in The Spirit of Laws, was possibly the first to suggest a universal explanation for history.

In the spirit of law and economics, we should credit and/or tar him with motives that are more intellectual and/or self-interested than that.

In The Spirit of Laws, Charles's was identified as the reign when "the whole of the French political state" was changed and weakened.

To his admirers, Mr. Britt, who has run unopposed each election since he was first appointed to the post in 1974, is the spirit of law and order incarnate.

Economists and many political leaders complained that the deal could undermine the euro because it violated at least the spirit of laws intended to guarantee the new bank's political independence.

The framers read Montesquieu's "Spirit of Law" and trusted his logic, his love of liberty and love of anything symmetrical, including 18th-century French gardens.

The Spirit of the Laws (French: De l'esprit des lois, also sometimes called The Spirit of Laws )

Hardcover and paperbacks in 70 categories will be offered as well as some rare volumes including a two-book set of Montesquieu's "Spirit of Laws," an 1802 first American printing.

The text quotes a passage of Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishment and multiple excerpts of Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws.

Ford said in its statement that "as a corporation, Ford Aerospace is committed to rigorous compliance with both the letter and spirit of laws and regulations application to its contracts with the Government."

However, many decrees were not sent to an Assembly, yet were accepted in the spirit of law: decisions about who governed a province, declaration and pursuit of a war, and foreign affairs were in the purlieu of the Senate.

In 2006, The Spirit of Law and Iowa Reports, paintings created by artist Xiaoze Xie under the auspices of GSA's Art in Architecture program, were installed in the Davenport Courthouse.

Between 1748 and 1751 the Philosophes reached their most influential period, as Montesquieu published Spirit of Laws (1748) and Jean Jacques Rousseau published Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences (1750).

Authors such as Bayle, Rousseau, Kant and Cabet read it and were probably inspired by some of it and the book was directed referenced by Montesquieu in chapter VI of his book "Spirit of Laws".

The basic fabric of the new American government was lifted from the pages of a French philosopher, the Baron de Montesquieu, whose Spirit of Laws (1748) laid the framework for a republic with three branches of government: the executive, the legislative, and the judicial.

No, in their own way, this poor Dominican street kid named Sammy and the well-to-do dentist's son from Southern California named Mac are giving the country the civics lesson it needs most - reminding us that a democratic society is not just about the letter of laws, but about the spirit of laws.