Thomas Hobbes, the famous author of "Leviathan", (1651), was a theorist on the law, the state of nature and the concept of social contract, and as such, one of the founders of modern political philosophy. He argued that both the law of nature and social contract  provided the basis of sovereignty. Traditionally, Hobbes is seen as a defender of absolute monarchy, a government system where the power ... return to the original and not a reflection on the continued functioning of a democratic society based on the Social Contract (1762) in which the sovereign people organize co...

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