Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom
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The Spirit of the Laws
The spirit of laws is the first really major work of political and social theory of the European Enlightenment. A lot of what Montesquieu's interest in is the constraints that states face in trying to govern complicated societies. The Scottish Enlightenment figures kind of made these claims, too, about the organic nature of society and the institutions that develop.
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