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The Aristocracy and Its Effects on the Economy
He's very worried about the negative effects of commerce, the capacity of commerce itself to er corrupt individuals. He doesn't think that english liberty or english models of politics can be applied to france. France has a powerful monarch who makes the laws. It has an aristocracy that can limit that can put the laws into practice. So you have a distinction between sovereignty and government. And the monarch makes the laws, the nobility put them into practice.