What Montesquieu missed: Why democracy must be protected from economic power
Daily Maverick | 29.07.2026 05:56
Montesquieu’s central argument was that to safeguard democracy from tyranny, political power must be divided, separating the judicial, legislative and executive arms of government. By dividing political power across these independent institutions, democracies created a system in which each branch constrained the others. This principle has endured because it works.
