Limitation of authority in the teaching of Joseph Addison

The article is devoted to the little-known treatise of the English publicist, writer and politician Joseph Addison "On the British Constitution". Joseph Addison's views on limiting authority became a natural development of John Locke’s conceptual ideas on the separation of power with a number of fundamental differences. Addison does not share Locke's opinion that the legislative power is supreme in the state. The Addison concept is much closer to the construction of Sh. L. Montesquieu. In the state-legal mechanism, the realization of the ideas of limitation of authority and separation of powers will create a stable system of checks and balances.