by Montesquieu · Orbis · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475305745
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«Del espíritu de las leyes (II)» is Montesquieu's essay on political philosophy, published by Orbis in paperback (580 pages, in Spanish).
Montesquieu examines which laws are suitable for each people according to their situation and way of being, and argues that liberty requires limited government in which powers are separated. This idea has shaped the development of constitutionalism and modern democracies.
Second volume of the work, published in the Orbis collection Historia del pensamiento (no. 31). The original title, De l'esprit des lois, appeared in 1748.
For readers interested in the roots of modern political thought and in one of the key works of the Enlightenment.
Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, intellectual, historian, and political philosopher.
