2. Which group's ideas are best supported by this excerpt" Base your answers to questions 1, 2, 3, and 4 on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.
... Nor is there liberty if the power of judging is not separate from legislative power and from executive power. If it were
joined to legislative power, the power over the life and liberty of the citizens would be arbitrary, for the judge would be
the legislator. If it were joined to executive power, the judge could have the force of an oppressor
---Montesquieu, The Spirit of the laws
Enlightened philosophers
Absolute Monarchs
Communists
Missionaries