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book I.: of laws in general.
book II.: of laws directly derived from the nature of government.
book III.: of the principles of the three kinds of government.
book IV.: that the laws of education ought to be relative to the principles of government.
book V.: that the laws, given by the legislator, ought to be relative to the principle of government.
book VI.: consequences of the principles of different governments with respect to the simplicity of civil and criminal laws, the form of judgements, and the inflicting of punishments.
book VII.: consequences of the different principles of the three governments, with respect to sumptuary laws, luxury, and the condition of women.
book VIII.: of the corruption of the principles of the three governments.
book IX.: of laws, in the relation they bear to a defensive force.
book X.: of laws, in the relation they bear to offensive force.
book XI.: of the laws which establish political liberty, with regard to the constitution.
book XII.: of the laws that form political liberty, as relative to the subject.
book XIII.: of the relation which the levying of taxes and the greatness of the public revenues have to liberty.
book XIV.: of laws as relative to the nature of the climate.
book XV.: in what manner the laws of civil slavery are relative to the nature of the climate.
book XVI.: how the laws of domestic slavery have a relation to the nature of the climate.
book XVII.: how the laws of political servitude have a relation to the nature of the climate.
book XVIII.: of laws in the relation they bear to the nature of the soil.
book XIX.: of laws, in relation to the principles which form the general spirit, the morals, and customs, of a nation.
chap. I.: of the subject of this book.
chap. II.: that it is necessary people’s minds should be prepared for the reception of the best laws.
chap. III.: of tyranny.
chap. IV.: of the general spirit of mankind.
chap. V.: how far we should be attentive lest the general spirit of a nation be changed.
chap. VI.: that every thing ought not to be corrected.
chap. VII.: of the athenians and lacedæmonians.
chap. VIII.: effects of a sociable temper.
chap. IX.: of the vanity and pride of nations.
chap. X.: of the character of the spaniards and chinese.
chap. XI.: a reflection.
chap. XII.: of custom and manners in a despotic state.
chap. XIII.: of the behaviour of the chinese.
chap. XIV.: what are the natural means of changing the manners and customs of a nation.
chap. XV.: the influence of domestic government on the political.
chap. XVI.: how some legislators have confounded the principles which govern mankind.
chap. XVII.: of the peculiar quality of the chinese government.
chap. XVIII.: a consequence drawn from the preceding chapter.
chap. XIX.: how this union of religion, laws, manners, and customs, among the chinese, was effected.
chap. XX.: explication of a paradox relating to the chinese.
chap. XXI.: how the laws ought to have a relation to manners and customs.
chap. XXII.: the same subject continued.
chap. XXIII.: how the laws are founded on the manners of a people.
chap. XXIV.: the same subject continued.
chap. XXV.: the same subject continued.
chap. XXVI.: the same subject continued.
chap. XXVII.: how the laws contribute to form the manners, customs, and character, of a nation.
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Volume II.
Volume III.
Volume IV.
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