Montesquieu’s separation of powers shaped the American Constitution

Evidence

The doctrine developed by Montesquieu in his Esprit des Lois on the basis of the contemporary bourgeois political system in England as he saw it whereby executive, legislative and judiciary functions are exercised independently of each other. The principle inspired the American Constitution and others modelled on it. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2316

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hayek treated the US Constitution as a model for binding democratic majorities — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 361; The Constitution left the federal courts’ structure to Congress by design — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 277

Related

• Separation of powers doctrine originated from Montesquieu’s reading of England and shaped modern constitutions (similarity 0.92)
• Hayek treated the US Constitution as a model for binding democratic majorities (similarity 0.85)