Some authors, such as Montesquieu, saw the parlements as a significant break on royal prerogatives.

一些作者，如孟德斯鸠，认为会是限制王权的重要因素。

Because Montesquieu, as they would later write, informed them that if the legislative becomes part of the executive, or the executive becomes part of the judicial, or judicial becomes part of the executive, you will have tyranny.

因为孟德斯鸠后来写道，如果立法关成为行政关的一部分，或者行政关成为法关的一部分，或者法关成为行政关的一部分，那么就会出现专制。

This and the consent of the governed would become the central planks of democracy, while both Locke's and Montesquieu's thoughts on the separation of powers were key to shaping the U.S. Congress.

这和人民的同意成为民主的核心支柱，而洛克和孟德斯鸠关于权力分立的思想对塑造美国国会至关重要。

The Spirit  of the Laws was so controversial that the Catholic Church banned the book only three years after  it was published, but even they could not stop Montesquieu's ideas.

《法律的精神》引起如此大的争，以至于天主教会在该书出版仅三年后就禁止这本书，但即使他们也无法阻止孟德斯鸠的思想。

It was inspired by the Enlightenment thinkers, from Rousseau to Montesquieu, and by the American Declaration of Independence of 1776, 13 years before.

它受到启蒙思想家的影响，从卢梭到孟德斯鸠， 并且受到1776年美国《独立宣言》的启发， 那是在13年前的事。

But I was able to read three volumes of Montesquieu this summer for the first time because of the Marrakesh Treaty.

但因为有喀什条约，我今年夏天第一次读完孟德斯鸠的三卷着作。

Jefferson not only collected books, he read them with an unquenchable appetite - Cicero in Latin, Plato in Greek, Montesquieu in French, Cervantes in Spanish.

杰斐逊不仅收集书籍, 还以无法抑制的胃口阅读书籍 - - 西塞罗的丁文、柏图的希腊文、孟德斯鸠的法文、塞万提斯的西班牙文。

Montesquieu's work influenced the revolutions in the late 1700s, changing how people set up their  republican governments and influencing how we see government today.

孟德斯鸠的著作影响 1700 年代末的革命，改变人们建立共和政府的方式，并影响我们今天对政府的看法。

As his own hard taskmaster, he studied Locke, Hume, Montesquieu, and other political philosophers.

作为自己严苛的导师, 他学习洛克、休谟、孟德斯鸠和其他政治哲学家。

Here's how Montesquieu put it. He said, " A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend."

孟德斯鸠是这么说的。他说：“真正良善的人会像帮助朋友一般，迅速地对最无关的陌生人施以援手。”

The important names are Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau, but there were many, many others.

重要的名字是孟德斯鸠、伏尔泰和卢梭， 但还有很多很多其他人。

Branches of Government Although it may seem commonplace to us today,   separating power within the government is a relatively new idea that took hold during  the Enlightenment with the help of a French philosopher known as Montesquieu.

4. 政府部门 尽管今天对我们来说这似乎很常见，但政府内部的权力分离是一个相对较新的想法，它是在启蒙运动期间在法国哲学家孟德斯鸠的帮助下流行起来的。

Although he hoped to be a doctor, Hamilton read widely and became as familiar with the writings of classical antiquity as he did with the Enlightenment philosophy of thinkers such as John Locke, David Hume, and Montesquieu.

虽然他希望成为一名医生，汉密尔顿广泛阅读，对古典古代的着作和像约翰·洛克、大卫·休谟以及孟德斯鸠这样的启蒙思想家的作品一样熟悉。

The high rate of interest among all Mahometan nations is accounted for by M. Montesquieu, not from their poverty, but partly from this, and partly from the difficulty of recovering the money.

孟德斯鸠先生解释所有伊斯兰教国家的高利率，不是因为他们的贫穷，而是部分原因在于此，部分原因在于收回货币的困难。

The Hungarian mines, it is remarked by Mr. Montesquieu, though not richer, have always been wrought with less expense, and therefore with more profit, than the Turkish mines in their neighbourhood.

匈牙利的矿山虽然并不富裕， 但与附近的土耳其矿山相比， 其生产成本始终较低， 因此利润也更高。

And if you look at the Federalist Papers, the intellectual most cited in the Federalist Papers, I think, in terms of just the number of times it's cited, is Montesquieu.

如果你查阅《联邦党人文集》，我认为，就引用次数而言，被引用最多的思想家是孟德斯鸠。