...specifies in the Leviathan, it is as if each of them had said to the other: "I authorize and give up my right of governing myself, to this man, or to this...him, and authorize all his actions in like manner" (Leviathan, XVII). Thus the sovereign is born: he is born out of the pact, yet remains alien to the...

...form the political association: "I authorize and give up my right of governing myself, to this man, or this assembly of men, on this condition, that thou...and authorize all his actions in like manner." This procedure, Hobbes says, produces not mere "concord" but "a real unity of them all, in one and the same...

...to judge as the sovereign judges. authorize and give up my right of governing myself to this man,1 or to this assembly of men, on this condition: that...right to him, and authorize all his actions in like manner.2 This done, the multitude so united in one person is called a COMMONWEALTH; in Latin, CIVITAS....

...manner, as if every man should say to every man, I Authorise and give up my Right of Governing my selfe, to this Man, or to this Assembly of men, on this condition, that thou give up thy Right to him, and Authorise all his Actions in like manner. ( 1 20) This covenant, which constitutes the basis for all...

...every person would promise to all others, "I Authorise and give up my right of Governing my selfe, to this Man, or to this Assembly of men, on this condition, that thou give up thy Right to him, and Authorise all his Actions in like manner" (original emphasis).23 Hobbes makes it perfectly clear that...

...Man, or to thu Asscmbly of men, on thu condition, that thou give up thy Right to him, and Authorise all his Actions in like manner. This done, the Multitude...so united in one Person, is called a COMMON-WEALTH, in latine CIVITAS. This is the Generation of that great LEVIATHAN, or rather (to speake more reverently)...

...thu Awmhly of men, on this condition, that thougive up thy Right to him, and Authors all hu Actions m like manner. This done, the Multitude so united in one Person, is called a COMMON-WEALTH, in latine C1V1TAS. This is the Generation of that great LEV1ATHAN, or rather (to speake more reverently)...

...give up my right of governing myselfe, to this Man, or Assembly of Men, on the condition, that you give up thy Right to him, and authorize all his Actions in like Manner."4 Hobbes is rightly seen as the father of all modern (ist) political thought. It is certainly...

...authorize anil give up my right of governing myself, to this man, or to thif nsiembly oj men . . . This done, the multitude so united in one person, is called a Commonwealth, in Latin civitas."*2 Hobbes's modern state was not simply mandated by tradition, but by something new:...

...choices. As Hobbes said, it is "as if every man should say to every man, / authorize and give up my right of governing myself, to this man, or to this assembly of men . . . This done, the multitude so united in one person, is called a Commonwealth, in Latin rivites."42...