Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
Baron de MontesquieuWhen the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.
Baron de MontesquieuThe sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
Baron de Montesquieu