Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:philosopher
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:French_Enlightenment
gptkbp:born January 18, 1689
gptkbp:contribution cultural anthropology
comparative politics
theory of government
gptkbp:died February 10, 1755
gptkbp:education gptkb:University_of_Bordeaux
gptkbp:field sociology
law
political philosophy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:U.S._Constitution
liberalism
democracy
political theory
the Enlightenment
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Voltaire
gptkb:John_Locke
gptkb:Isaac_Newton
gptkb:Thomas_Hobbes
gptkbp:knownFor The Spirit of the Laws
gptkbp:legacy influence on civil liberties
influence on constitutional law
influence on modern political thought
influence on the concept of checks and balances
influence on the rule of law
influence on the concept of liberty
influence on the development of sociology
influence on the idea of civil society
influence on the idea of justice
influence on the separation of church and state
gptkbp:locatedIn gptkb:Paris
gptkb:Bordeaux
gptkbp:nationality French
gptkbp:notableAlumni separation of powers
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Persian_Letters
The Spirit of the Laws
The_Considerations_on_the_Causes_of_the_Greatness_of_the_Romans_and_their_Decline
gptkbp:occupation writer
jurist
gptkbp:philosophy Enlightenment
liberalism
rationalism
empiricism
gptkbp:title Baron
gptkbp:wrote gptkb:Persian_Letters
The_Considerations_on_the_Causes_of_the_Greatness_of_the_Romans_and_their_Decline