Question

Charles de Montesquieu, a French philisopher who died in 1755 influnced the

writers of the Constitution with the below quote.


"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body...there can be no liberty...the same monarch or senate could enact tyrannical laws...Again, there is no liberty if the judiciary power be not separated

from the legislative and executive".


What does this quote warn of and how did Montesquieu's quote influence the writers of our Constitution?

Answer 1

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Although there are no options attached, we can say the following.

This quote warns of the risk of concentrating the power in just one office or department. Montesquieu's quote influenced the writers of our Constitution in that the founding fathers of the United States considered as positive the ideas expressed by Baron de Montesquiou regarding the separation of powers.

That is why, the founding fathers during the Constitutional Convention of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1787, agreed on a federal government divided into three branches: the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch.