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book I.: of laws in general.

book II.: of laws directly derived from the nature of government.

book III.: of the principles of the three kinds of government.

book IV.: that the laws of education ought to be relative to the principles of government.

book V.: that the laws, given by the legislator, ought to be relative to the principle of government.

book VI.: consequences of the principles of different governments with respect to the simplicity of civil and criminal laws, the form of judgements, and the inflicting of punishments.

book VII.: consequences of the different principles of the three governments, with respect to sumptuary laws, luxury, and the condition of women.

book VIII.: of the corruption of the principles of the three governments.

book IX.: of laws, in the relation they bear to a defensive force.

book X.: of laws, in the relation they bear to offensive force.

book XI.: of the laws which establish political liberty, with regard to the constitution.

book XII.: of the laws that form political liberty, as relative to the subject.

book XIII.: of the relation which the levying of taxes and the greatness of the public revenues have to liberty.

book XIV.: of laws as relative to the nature of the climate.

book XV.: in what manner the laws of civil slavery are relative to the nature of the climate.

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book XVI.: how the laws of domestic slavery have a relation to the nature of the climate.

chap. I.: of domestic servitude.

chap. II.: that, in the countries of the south, there is a natural inequality between the two sexes.

chap. III.: that a plurality of wives greatly depends on the means of supporting them.

chap. IV.: that the law of polygamy is an affair that depends on calculation.

chap. V.: the reason of a law of malabar.

chap. VI.: of polygamy considered in itself.

chap. VII.: of an equality of treatment in case of many wives.

chap. VIII.: of the separation of women from men.

chap. IX.: of the connexion between domestic and political government.

chap. X.: the principle on which the morals of the east are founded.

chap. XI.: of domestic slavery independently of polygamy.

chap. XII.: of natural modesty.

chap. XIII.: of jealousy.

chap. XIV.: of the eastern manner of domestic government.

chap. XV.: of divorce and repudiation.

chap. XVI.: of repudiation and divorce amongst the romans.

book XVII.: how the laws of political servitude have a relation to the nature of the climate.

book XVIII.: of laws in the relation they bear to the nature of the soil.

book XIX.: of laws, in relation to the principles which form the general spirit, the morals, and customs, of a nation.

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The Complete Works of Montesquieu. Electronic Edition.

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BOOK XIX.: OF LAWS, IN RELATION TO THE PRINCIPLES WHICH FORM THE GENERAL SPIRIT, THE MORALS, AND CUSTOMS, OF A NATION.

CHAP. I.: Of the Subject of this Book.

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CHAP. I.: Of the Subject of this Book.

THIS subject is very extensive. In that croud of ideas, which present themselves to my mind, I shall be more attentive to the order of things than to the things themselves. I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

CHAP. I.: Of the Subject of this Book.