A monarchy is ruined when a prince believes he shows his power more by changing the order of things than by following it, when he removes the functions that are natural to some to give them arbitrarily to others, and when he is more enamoured of what he fancies than of what he wills.
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic change power
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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