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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.

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

chap. I.: in what manner republics provide for their safety.

chap. II.: that a confederate government ought to be composed of states of the same nature, especially of the republican kind.

chap. III.: other requisites in a confederate republic.

chap. IV.: in what manner despotic governments provide for their security.

chap. V.: in what manner a monarchical government provides for its security.

chap. VI.: of the defensive force of states in general.

chap. VII.: a reflexion.

chap. VIII.: a particular case, in which the defensive force of a state is inferior to the offensive.

chap. IX.: of the relative force of states.

chap. X.: of the weakness of neighbouring states.

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.

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

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.

Volume I.

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BOOK XII.: OF THE LAWS THAT FORM POLITICAL LIBERTY, AS RELATIVE TO THE SUBJECT.

CHAP. XVI.: Of Calumny, with Regard to the Crime of High-Treason.

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CHAP. XVI.: Of Calumny, with Regard to the Crime of High-Treason.

TO do justice to the Cæsars, they were not the first devisers of the horrid laws which they enacted.

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It is Sylla ^†432 that taught them that calumniators ought not to be punished: but the abuse was soon carried to such excess as to reward them ^†433.

CHAP. XVI.: Of Calumny, with Regard to the Crime of High-Treason.