Multiple choice

Who authored the revolutionary work 'The Spirit of the Laws', which proposed a division of power within the government between the legislative, the executive and the judiciary?

  1. Jean Jacques Rousseau

  2. John Locke

  3. Georges Danton

  4. Montesquieu

  5. Arthur Young

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu was a French political philosopher who wrote 'The Spirit of Laws'. This model of government was put into force in the USA after the thirteen colonies declared their independence from Britain.