https://www.superphysics.org/research/montesquieu/spirit-of-the-laws/book-9/ Recent content in Laws Related to Defense on Superphysics Hugo en https://www.superphysics.org/research/montesquieu/spirit-of-the-laws/book-9/chapter-1/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/montesquieu/spirit-of-the-laws/book-9/chapter-1/ <p>A small republic is destroyed by a foreign force.</p> <p>A large one is ruined by an internal imperfection.</p> <p>Democracies and aristocracies are equally liable to these.</p> <p>This is why mankind has been obliged to live constantly under the government of a single person until they developed a confederate republic. Such a constitution has:</p> https://www.superphysics.org/research/montesquieu/spirit-of-the-laws/book-9/chapter-4/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/montesquieu/spirit-of-the-laws/book-9/chapter-4/ <p>Republics provide for their security by uniting.</p> <p>Despotic governments do it by separating, and by keeping themselves single. They sacrifice a part of the country; and, by rav aging and desolating the frontiers, they render the heart of the empire inaccessible. This practice is more tolerable in large than in middling states.</p>