François Saint-Bonnet has, in particular, published “The State of exception” (PUF, coll. “Léviathan”, 2001) and “To the test of terrorism - The powers of the State” (Gallimard, coll. "The spirit of the city", 2017). The academic is also the author, with Yves Sassier, of "History of institutions before 1789 (LGDJ-Montchrestien, coll. "Domat - Public law", 6th ed., 2019). Latest work published: “Citizenship as belonging to the body politic” (Éditions Panthéon-Assas, 2021), collective book which he co-edited with Olivier Beaud.
For Montesquieu,
“natural law orders fathers to feed their children, but it does not oblige them to make them heirs”
(
De l'esprit des Lois
, XXVI, 6).
Inheritance law would therefore depend on political choices in the broad sense, that is to say on models of society.
Choices clearly present in the presidential campaign: some intend to lower or even abolish inheritance taxes, others to increase them drastically;
others still facilitate donations…
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