Aiden C - IHSS HW: Blog "Liberty"

Aiden Cunningham
Mr. Roddy
IHSS
2 February 2021

IHSS HW: Blog "Liberty"

The laws proposed by Montesquieu are mostly ones taken into account in our US government today, and I personally think that these laws are very pensive and very encompassing of possible problems in a government if followed correctly. “Liberty is not the freedom to do whatever we want: if we have the freedom to harm others, for instance, others will also have the freedom to harm us, and we will have no confidence in our own safety.” This is one great example of how these rules were really thought about for some time.

        Next is the quote “The laws should be constructed to make it as easy as possible for citizens to protect themselves from punishment by not committing crimes. They should not be vague, since if they were, we might never be sure whether or not some particular action was a crime.” I think that this law would be very important in places like North Korea, where almost everything is monitored, and the leader there can punish anyone for anything he thinks is against him or the government. Other governments a long time ago also used to punish people for crimes against God and other non-necessity-based crimes, and by looking at many deadly times in history you can see how many of them are based on some religious or racial crime.

        All these rules make sense and by looking at the evidence I can see how these rules would have prevented multiple problems with governments around the world. Looking at the way he recommends we arrange the government, I would have said that each section of the government should have to agree on something before it is passed on, rather than having two parties balance each other while one party is separate, but this system probably works much better due to the faster response time it allows for.

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