The difference between the democracy that is regulated and the one that is not is that, in the former, one is equal only as a citizen, and, in the latter, one is also equal as a magistrate, senator, judge, father, husband, or master.
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic democracy difference
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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