"Useless laws weaken the necessary ones. Liberty is the right to do what the laws permit."
Today's Question
Are 'rules and regulations' a 'protective shield' that keeps you safe, or a 'stumbling block' that limits your choices?
The baron who defined freedom after observing the English parliamentary system
Montesquieu was an 18th-century French thinker who lamented how absolute monarchy oppressed individual freedom.
He went to England to study the Bill of Rights and parliamentary democracy. He believed that blind license is not freedom; true freedom is the right to act within the limits of law without hurting others, proposing the separation of powers.