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By the time the Constitution was being written (largely by Madison),
Smith was well known. But we should put his writing in the broader
context of Blackstone (reprinted by Chitty in Philadelphia I believe
in the early 1760s) which comes very close to suggesting the tripartate
(three vector) structure of government, Montesquieu, whom we know Madison
and others knew well, and of course Locke's Second Treatise.
Perhaps Smith's WON added particular emphasis to the importance of the
judiciary, something to which Hamiltonian devoted special attention in
the Federalist.
FC
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