2303 ([return])
[ Speech by Lanjuinais, November 7, 1789. "We determined on the separation of the powers. Why, then, should the proposal he made to us to unite the legislative power with the executive power in the persons of the ministers?">[
2304 ([return])
[ See the attendance of the Ministers before the Legislative Assembly.]
2305 ([return])
[ "Any society in which the separation of the powers is not clearly defined has no constitution." (Declaration of Rights, article XVI.)—This principle is borrowed from a text by Montesquieu, also from the American Constitution. In the rest the theory of Rousseau is followed.]
2306 ([return])
[ Mercure de France, an expression by Mallet du Pan.]
2307 ([return])
[ Constitution of 1791, ch. II. articles 5, 6, 7.—Decree of September 25—October 6, 1791, section III. articles, 8 to 25.]