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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

–Baron de Montesquieu,
The Spirit of the Laws,
1748

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According to Montesquieu, what would happen in an absolute monarchy?

Laws could not be enacted.
Citizens could lose their freedom.
Tyranny would be avoided.
Powers would be limited.

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Citizens could lose their freedom.

Montesquieu argues that if one person or body holds both legislative and executive power, there can be no liberty because that concentration enables tyrannical laws and their tyrannical enforcement.