Just as the sea, which seems to want to cover the whole earth, is checked by the grasses and the smallest bits of gravel on the shore, so monarchs, whose power seems boundless, are checked by the slightest obstacles …. [1]
Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (1748)
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Montesquieu, The Sprit of the Laws, ed. and tr. Anne Cohler, Basia
Miller, Harold Stone (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 18. [Part I, Book 2, Chapter 4]
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