...Laws ; Phila, 1811, page 12 : " Confining myself, then, wholly to the fundamental principles of civil society, disregarding the difference of forms, neither...divide all governments into two classes, one of these I will denominate national, in which social rights are common to all (nationaux on de droit commun) ;...

...classification of governments and argued that only two broad principles lay behind different states: "I will divide all governments into two classes ....establishing or recognizing particular or unequal rights."67 Destutt asked his readers to look beyond the superficial organization of governments to...

...applause because he cut through Montesquieu's categories, collapsing all regimes into two fundamental "classes": "one of these I denominate national, in...establishing or recognizing particular or unequal rights." "Monarchy" signified the exercise of executive authority by a "single person," and was thus compatible...