Read the passage.
"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty.”
–The Spirit of Laws,
Baron de Montesquieu, 1748
Which Enlightenment idea does the passage help to explain?
the social contract
natural rights
the separation of powers
the separation of church and state
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the separation of powers
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