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When one examines the maxim of Thomas as set forth in Leviathan it becomes obvious that believes the nature of man to be bad. According to , if we as men were left to exercise our own private judgement regarding our affairs we would most assuredly collapse into ....

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.... we would abstain from no measure in order to preserve our own well being. In a state of war man is in "a Continual fear and danger of a violent death; and the life of man (is) solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." (. Pg. 107) The only way to prevent entering a state of war is to erect one common power, which is known as a commonwealth or sovereign, who is "One person, of whose Acts a great Multitude, by mutuall Covenants one with another, have made themselves every one the Author, to the end he may use the strength and means of them all, as he shall think expedient, for their Peace and Common Defence."(, pg. 121) With this definition comes t ....