Montesquieu and George Washington

Our national government, in my opinion, was integrated by following the writings of Montesquieu. Montesquieu wrote that leaders could not be trusted to always do what was right for the people and that govenment should be structured to keep the leaders of the government from acting in a self-seeking manner and passing laws that would help a select few kinda of the majority of the people. That is exactly the way our Founding Fathers thought when they were writing the Constitution.Montesquieu kickoff had the idea of seperation of powers in a government. He thought if there were various branches of government, then no one branch would have too practic totallyy power. He also thought that each branch of government should hold different groups of the population, so no one group would have all the power. Our government followed this almost exactly as he wrote it. We have the intercourse which is divided up into two seperate houses, one being represented by people who are voted on by the population.How many representatives there are, depends on the amount of people in an area. The other is voted on by the people, plainly are the same amount for each state. Montesquieu also believed in a checks and balances system, where one branch of government has the power to check on another(prenominal) branch, and that one branch could not force another to do what it wanted it to do, but it could move in sure that the other branch was doing something it shouldnt do. I work out our national government has followed this idea too.Our government is direct up so that each branch can check on the other to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to do for the common honest of the nation. Ours may go even further than Montesquieus ideas, because our President has the power to forbid a law that has passed through Congress, but Congress can revolutionise his veto if they have enough votes. I think the men who set up our national government not only followed the ideas o f Montesquieu, but believed his ideas were right-hand(a) when structering our government.