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Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom

Free Thoughts

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The Constraint on the State

Montesquieu generally thinks that modern states will be monarchies. He doesn't say this will happen when we get a bad monarch. All of those bodies stand up for their rights, he says. In order to get freedom in a modern constitutional monarchy, we were going to have pluralism.

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