Everyone readily agrees that human laws are of a different nature from that of the laws of religion, and this is a great principle, but this principle itelf is subject to others which must be sought.
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic religion law
Date 1748
Language English
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Note Translated by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone
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