1748 CE
Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
Law & constitutions · Teoría jurídica, gobierno y poderes
The Spirit of the Laws, published in 1748, compared laws and institutions in relation to forms of government, society, and material conditions, and influenced later formulations on the distribution of powers. It is a work of political and legal theory, not a constitution or a model applied identically by later states.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
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Sources
- plato.stanford.edu (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2003-07-18
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Source updated
- 2014-04-02
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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