Montesquieu:

Trade is a cure for the most destructive prejudices; for it is almost a general rule, that wherever we find agreeable manners, there commerce flourishes; and wherever there is commerce, there we meet with agreeable manners.

— Montesquieu Early Modern

Separation of powers

Context

The Spirit of the Laws, Book XX, Chapter 1: Of Commerce and its Nature

Date / Period

1748

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10660/10660-h/10660-h.htm#link2H_4_0013

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