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The nature of human laws is to be subject to all the accidents that occur and to vary as men’s wills change, whereas the nature of the laws of religion is never to vary.
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Montesquieu
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The Spirit of Law
(1748)
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Translated by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone
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"The nature of human laws is to be subject to all the accidents that occur and to vary as men’s wills change, whereas the nature of the laws of religion is never to vary." Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748).
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