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This first comprehensive commentary onThe Spirit of the Lawsuncovers and explicates the plan of Montesquieu's famous but baffling treatise. Pangle brings to light Montesquieu's rethinking of the philosophical groundwork of liberalism, showing howThe Spirit of the Lawsenlarges and enriches the liberal conception of natural right by means of a new appeal to History as the source of basic norms.Pangle, Thomas L. is the author of 'Montesquieu's Philosophy of Liberalism A Commentary on the Spirit of the Laws' with ISBN 9780226645452 and ISBN 0226645452.
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