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  • Hidden Secrets of Power Mechanisms

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    Wojciech Plocharski
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    The document summarizes Montesquieu's theory of separating political power into three branches - legislative, executive, and judicial - and using different driving forces like virtue, honor, and fear to power different forms of government like democracy, monarchy, and despotism respectively. It encourages readers to study Chapter VI of Book XI in Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws to understand how political systems work like interconnected gears in a clock and should not be driven by random fortune but through the established mechanisms of power.

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    The document summarizes Montesquieu's theory of separating political power into three branches - legislative, executive, and judicial - and using different driving forces like virtue, honor, and fear to power different forms of government like democracy, monarchy, and despotism respectively. It encourages readers to study Chapter VI of Book XI in Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws to understand how political systems work like interconnected gears in a clock and should not be driven by random fortune but through the established mechanisms of power.

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    Hidden Secrets of Power Mechanisms

    Enviado por

    Wojciech Plocharski
    The document summarizes Montesquieu's theory of separating political power into three branches - legislative, executive, and judicial - and using different driving forces like virtue, honor, and fear to power different forms of government like democracy, monarchy, and despotism respectively. It encourages readers to study Chapter VI of Book XI in Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws to understand how political systems work like interconnected gears in a clock and should not be driven by random fortune but through the established mechanisms of power.

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    Hidden Secrets of Power Mechanisms

    I do not mention Montesquieu because of sentimental,


    but purely practical reasons. I suggest anyone -
    who intends to engage in politics -
    to read Chapter VI of Book XI in The Spirit of the Laws1.
    It's better to do it earlier, than during political retirement
    or banishment.

    Everyone knows how a traditional, mechanical clock is built -


    it's many larger and smaller gearwheels.
    Speaking of the state, Montesquieu also distinguishes
    three such main elements: legislative, executive,
    and judicial powers.
    They are separate beings,
    but connected by movement. Turning off one of them
    does not help the clock.

    There are clocks using various drives -


    says the French thinker.
    Democracy is fueled by virtue, monarchy - by honor,
    and despotism - fear.

    Montesquieu proposes not to propel states


    with the wheel of fortune, but fortune -
    with the wheels of power.

    MMXVIII

    1 The Spirit of the Laws is a treatise on theory of government, as well as a pioneering work in comparative
    law, published in 1748 by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

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