
Charles Louis de Montesquieu, O duchu zákonů II. Obrana Ducha zákonů
(The Spirit of the Laws II. The Defence of the Spirit of the Law)
The volume contains the translation of the second part of the Spirit of the Laws (1748, books XX-XXXI), summary of the book from the jansenist magazine Nouvelles ecclésiastiques (1749), Montesquieu's Defence of the Spirit of the Laws (1750), Censorship proposition of Sorbonne's Theological Faculty (1752) and Montesquieu's Answers and Explications for the Sorbonne Theological Faculty (1753). The second part of the Spirit of the Laws is translated from the post-mortem edition of the Spirit of the laws (1757), all other texts follow the new edition of Montesquieu’s complete works. Translation is accompanied by translator's note, explanatory notes and index. None of these texts was ever published in Czech language.