Questions 1–2 are based 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 the executive power, the judge could have the force of an oppressor . . . Source: Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws Which document did this passage most heavily influence? a. Edict of 1635 Ordering the Closing of Japan b. The Communist Manifesto c. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen d. Magna Carta (disaprove the other answers
