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The Complete Works of Montesquieu. Electronic Edition.
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Volume I.
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BOOK XII.: OF THE LAWS THAT FORM POLITICAL LIBERTY, AS RELATIVE TO THE SUBJECT.
CHAP. XXVI.: That, in a Monarchy, the Prince ought to be of easy Access.

CHAP. XXVI.: That, in a Monarchy, the Prince ought to be of easy Access.

THE utility of this maxim will appear from the inconveniency attending the contrary practice. “The Czar Peter I. says the sieur Perry†463, has published a new edict, by which he forbids any of his subjects to offer him a petition till after having presented it to two of his officers. In case of refusal of justice, they may present him a third; but upon pain of death if they are in the wrong. After this no one ever presumed to offer a petition to the Czar.”