Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill¶
Hobbes, T. (1651). Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill.
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- Sovereignty
- Bodin (1576) and Hobbes (1651) reasoned this way when they argued that sovereignty must be singular and indivisible to function—Bodin defining it as "the absolute and perpetual power of a commonwealth," and Hobbes locating it in the undivided sovereign whose authority alone could escape the war of all against all.
This sourceLocates sovereignty in an undivided sovereign authorized by the social contract; only an unaccountable and indivisible sovereign can escape the war of all against all.
- Bodin (1576) and Hobbes (1651) reasoned this way when they argued that sovereignty must be singular and indivisible to function—Bodin defining it as "the absolute and perpetual power of a commonwealth," and Hobbes locating it in the undivided sovereign whose authority alone could escape the war of all against all.
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