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x346d22088k	Joshua Bandoch	On Political Particularism: De l'sprit des lois and the Politics of Statecraft	2012		.txt	text/plain	271	7	33	I will argue in this study that Montesquieu's primary purpose in writing De l'Esprit des lois is to educate legislators by giving them practical advice that will teach them how to address the following question: How is it possible to advance universal goals like security, liberty, and prosperity in the context of particular societies that change over time? He wants to instruct legislators how to understand particular societies in order to effect positive change (by making them more secure, free, and prosperous), or in order to maintain a state's goodness once the state has achieved it.	cache/x346d22088k.txt	txt/x346d22088k.txt