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Commerce is the profession of equal people, and the poorest despotic states are those whose prince is a merchant.
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Montesquieu
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The Spirit of Law
(1748)
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Author
Montesquieu
Source
The Spirit of Law
Topic
state
commerce
Date
1748
Language
English
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Translated by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone
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"Commerce is the profession of equal people, and the poorest despotic states are those whose prince is a merchant." Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748).
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