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Name the French Enlightenment author of The Spirit of the Laws who defined tyranny as “the exercise of power beyond right.”
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Name the French Enlightenment author of The Spirit of the Laws who defined tyranny as “the exercise of power beyond right.”

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The Spirit of the Laws is a treatise on political theory, as well as a pioneering work in comparative law, published in 1748 by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu.
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i think its Montesquieu, but i could be wrong
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