Notes

Epigraphs

1. Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, ed. David Wallace Carrithers, trans. Thomas Nugent (Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1977), 99. Nugent’s translation of the first French edition (Geneva: Barillot, 1748) was first published in 1750 in London by Nourse.

2. Deuteronomy 30:11–14, New American Bible Revised Edition, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, https://bible.usccb.org/bible/deuteronomy/30.