Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu (1689-1755) of Bordeaux, France and author of "On the Spirit of Laws" which defines the process of sepration of powers embedded in US...
Montesquieu was a political philosopher who had the idea to take government power & divide it up amongst "departments" (or branches) of the government. Madison applied this idea to the Virginia...
He believed that the best form of government was one divided into different sources of power because he also believed that dictators were unjust. An example is like a legislative power, a judicial...