The three branches of government are a concept first imagined by the philosopher Montesquieu. According to the Constitutional ...

Ghana stands on the edge of a constitutional precipice, teetering dangerously between the rule of law and raw political ...

In an interview with Le Monde, Michaël Foessel and Bruno Karsenti analyze the driving forces behind the rise of xenophobic ...

The United States of America is a country divided down the middle. Travelling across both coasts before the November 5 ...

Instead, I’ve been poring over Theodore Draper’s A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. The 1996 volume looks back to the 17th and 18th centuries, and yet that distant history rhymes with ...

The city of Bordeaux, located in the southwest of France, beautifully blends the charm of its historic past with the world-renowned winemaking tradition that has defined it for centuries. Renowned for ...

Nigerians wondered whether the Speaker had taken over the job of Presidency spokesmen or whether he never encountered Montesquieu’s illumination on why there’s need for separation of powers in a ...

Montesquieu’s Lettres Persanes, and the writings on Chinese culture of French Jesuits Louis Le Comte and Jean-Baptiste du ...

The judiciary’s role in a democracy is to protect individual rights, promote equality, and ensure that the rule of law is upheld, but it can only perform this role if it is allowed to act ...

How many could describe the thinking of Locke, Rosseau, Montesquieu or any of other philosophers of the Enlightenment? Could they have possibly composed a single one of the Federalist Papers ...

Roberts’s ruling comes from a world without John Locke, without Montesquieu, without Thomas Jefferson or James Madison or Alexander Hamilton. He describes a Constitution unmoored from republican ...