βIn every government, there are three sorts of power . . . when the legislative and executive are united in the same person or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty because . . . the same monarch or senate . . . (may) enact tyrannical laws.β
The author of this passage was
A. Montesquieu
B. Bossuet
C. Voltaire
D. Hobbes
E. Louis XIV