Who wrote the book "The Spirit of Laws"?

Q. Who wrote the book "The Spirit of Laws"?
Answer: Montesquieu
Notes: In asking the Indian courts to maintain judicial restraint in 2007, Supreme Court quoted from the book 'The Spirit of Laws' by Montesquieu criticizing judiciary for "overreach" and encroachment on the domain of the other two organs".

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