Liberty is doomed where power is united – consolidated in the same hands. That’s the warning Montesquieu gave us about separation of powers. This was one of the biggest battles between Federalists and Anti-Federalists But here’s the twist: both sides used the exact same words to support opposite arguments. In this episode, we’re diving into this critical debate over the ideas of the most-cited political writer of the ratification debates

Path to Liberty: December 9, 2024

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Natelson – The ideas that formed the Constitution: Montesquieu

Paul Merrill Spurlin – Montesquieu and the American Constitution

Center for the Study of the American Constitution

The Spirit of Laws, Vol. 1, Book XI – Of the Laws that form political Liberty, with regard to the Constitution

James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

Constitution of Virginia (1776)

Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1780)

Boldin – Separation of Powers: A “Dogmatic Maxim” in the Constitution

Richard Peters – Letter to John Adams (15 June 1789)

Separation of Powers with Checks and Balances

Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Gov. Edmund Randolph (16 Oct 1787)

Centinel II (24 Oct 1787)

The Dissent of the Minority of the Pennsylvania Convention (18 Dec 1787)

Impartial Examiner IV (11 June 1788)

Maharrey – George Mason’s Anti-Federalist Arguments Against the Constitution

John C. Pinheiro – How the Founders Read Montesquieu

James Madison – Federalist 47 (1 Feb 1788)

William Davie – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (4 Dec 1787)

Episode – The Other 16th Amendment: Separation of Powers

William Reddinger – John Dickinson and the Moderation of Constitutional Balance in The Letters of Fabius

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