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But Montesquieu missed the ties that continued to bind Britain's powers together.
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Had not the great writer and thinker Montesquieu himself said the republic relied on virtue, and virtue consisted in the capacity of individuals to exercise their own freely-formed judgment?
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The principle that courts must be seen to be independent was a common-law export, its ascendancy owing much to the glowing portrayal of Britain's separation of powers by the 18th-century political philosopher, Montesquieu.
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"Sweet commerce, " Montesquieu called it.
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Friends, we are running through a playbook of national decline laid out by thinkers ranging from Gibbon to Montesquieu (use of mercenaries to fight our wars and clean our toilets, imperial overreach, an intellectually apathetic citizenry, onerous taxes, tax evasion, failure to protect borders, and failure to inculcate newcomers in the time-honored values of the nation).
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