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His book was greatly influenced by John Locke. John Locke came up with the ideas of life, liberty
and property. Montesquieu also shared these same ideas. He was a follower of John and his ideas. Montesquieu
studied three types of governements republic, monarchy and despotism. A republic governemtn was one ruled by the people.
A monarchy was ruled by a king or a queen. A despotism was one ruled by a military leader. He also wanted three
differnet branches of government. He came up with an executive branch, which was tovote and carry out laws, a judical
branch, which was supream court, and a legislative branch, which came up with the laws. he also had a sytem called checks
and balance were no one branch had more power than the other and each could check over the other.
The book was admired for its depth, clarrity and brilliant unadorned style. He also said there
are multiple solutions to the problems of fovernment and freedom.
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