Docno: ADMS-03-02-02-0002-0001-0006
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 1787-01-06
Very cold this morning, Freeman went for Ipswich. Mr. Andrews called upon us in the
afternoon.
I got through Montesquieu's spirit Laws;
1 and I much admire the author's penetration, in discovering the origin, and causes
of diverse Laws in diverse Countries, and in the same Country, at different periods.
His ideas of the principles, upon which the different forms of government are founded,
appear very just; though I think he says not all he would have said, had he lived
in a Country where a man might with impunity publish his sentiments.