How Did Montesquieu Change The World

Charles-Louis de Secondat, the Baron de Montesquieu, also known as Charles-Louis Montesquieu, was a very important philosophe of his time. Born in France to a rich family, he was then brought up by a poor family, which is why many say is the reason he had his way of viewing life. Montesquieu was a french philosopher who truly shaped modern government. But, to be able to shape the world so greatly, he had to study hard and develop all of his ideas. Montesquieu began studying in his home country, france, and studied in the university of Julily. Here, he went after what he was passionate about, and became a lawyer. From this point on, Montesquieu started developing ideas that would change the world forever.
Montesquieu was born into an era at the dawn of the eighteenth century where many countries in Europe were dealing
He argued that the best government would be one in which power was balanced among three groups of officials. He thought England - which divided power between the king-enforced laws, Parliament-made laws, and the judges of the English courts, interpreted laws- was a good model of this. Montesquieu called this idea the “separation of power” in which government was divided into three branches. He believed that separating government into three equal branches but with different powers was essential. That way, the government would avoid placing too much power on one individual or group of individuals. He wrote, "When the [lawmaking] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty." According to Montesquieu, each branch of government could limit the power of the other two branches. Therefore, no branch of the government could ever threaten to overthrow the freedom of the people. His ideas of separation would latter be used for a very important document that would change the Untied States