Bodin, Jean, a publicist and diplomatist, born at Angers; author of “The Republic,” in six books, published at first in French and then in Latin, which summed up all the political philosophy of his time, and contributed to prepare the way for subsequent speculations; was the precursor of Hobbes and Montesquieu (1530‒1596).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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