The political theorist Charles Louis Montesquieu was born in 1689 in France and was nobility by birth. He succeeded his father as magistrate and lived during the Enlightenment. Montesquieu had the goal of identifying one law that explains society. Through his works The Persian Letters, The Spirit of the Laws he established his political and social views on society. In The Persian Letters Montesquieu related the current happenings in Europe at the time. He used the …showed first 75 words of 786 total…

…showed last 75 words of 786 total…believed the justice system should be slow. Many things written by Montesquieu were in order to reform criminal law. He was a reformed for the Age of Enlightenment and believed slavery, torture and persecution because of religion are wrong. Punishments of his time were too harsh he said and people should be sentenced to things that cause shame and humiliation, not barbaric acts. Montesquieu was influential in politics and laws and has shaped society today.