5. "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of
magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate
should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner."
In this quote from The Spirit of the Laws (1748), Montesquieu was clearly advocating for
a. Popular sovereignty
b. Separation of powers
c. Checks and balances
d. Federalism
