Ep. 239: Montesquieu Invents Political Science (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Dangers of Corruption in a Robust Republic
There's a lot of use of Constitution in this text. I didn't know whether they're talking about like the explicit legal Constitution or the makeup. There's a interesting kind of feedback going on where the laws ought to reflect the kind of people and society that are there. But part of that's going to involve something like buy-in from those people. So you're going to get alignment by aligning with the people but you need to have the people reinforcing that.
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