The idea that the King of England was taking away natural rights, so therefore we had a right to overthrow the government in order to create a social contract that was honest and true and open. But nevertheless, Montesquieu is still worried. He's still worried about that big bad government, and he comes up with some theology or ideology that is going to keep us even more safe from that entity because his idea is that one power is just too corrupting. That power, government power, is corrupting because eventually the government's going to try to save itself rather than save the people. So what Montesquieu says is if we develop a separation of powers and then we give each of those powers different powers to check each other so they can balance that power out, then we'll have even more safety in our natural rights. So he comes up with checks and balances and separation of powers, which most Western nations and even other nations around the world that aren't dictatorships or absolute monarchs have. In England they have a parliament, and then they elect the leader of England.