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Legislative Principles: The History and Theory of Lawmaking by ... - Page 37
by Robert Luce - 2006 - 667 pages
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Hobbes: Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes - 1996 - 628 pages
...on p. 88 of the original, Hobbes wrote (according to both the manuscript and Syn) that the sovereign 'hath the use of so much Power and Strength conferred on him, that by terror thereof, he is inabled to conforme the wills of them all, to Peace at home . . .'. In the copies as printed, 'performe' appears...
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Argentine Dictator

John Lynch - 2001 - 206 pages
...concept of sovereignty in Thomas Hobbes: "For by this Authoritie, given him by every particular man in the Common-Wealth, he hath the use of so much Power...Peace at home, and mutuall ayd against their enemies abroad."22 From the time he was installed in office, Rosas held the classical rights of sovereignty...
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The English Renaissance: An Anthology of Sources and Documents

Kate Aughterson - 2002 - 628 pages
...the immortal God. our peace and defence, For hy this authority, given him hy every particular man in the commonwealth, he hath the use of so much power and strength conferred on him. that hy terror thereof, he is enahled to form the wills of them all to peace at home, and mumal aid against...
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Stately Bodies: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Gender

Adriana Cavarero - 2002 - 246 pages
...of the sovereign, who is made irresistible by the use of that power rendered concrete by the sword: "He hath the use of so much power and strength conferred on him, that by terror thereof, he is enabled to form the wills of them all, to peace at home, and mutual aid against their enemies abroad"...
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Religion and Its Monsters

Timothy Kandler Beal - 2002 - 254 pages
...use of so much Power and Strength conferred on him, that by terror thereof, he is inabled to conforme the wills of them all to Peace at home, and mutuall ayd against their enemies abroad. Hobbes thus conceives the commonwealth as a human creation, through covenant, of a sovereign "Body...
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Visions of Politics, Volume 3

Quentin Skinner - 2002 - 430 pages
...6, p. 39, ch. 26, pp. 190-1, ch. 46, p. 469. *'° Hobbes 1969a, pp. 188-9. 33' South 1823a, p. 115. so much Power and Strength conferred on him, that by terror thereof he is inabled to conforme the wills of them all, to Peace at home, and mutuall ayd against their enemies abroad'. 332...
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Visions of Politics, Volume 3

Quentin Skinner - 2002 - 430 pages
...115. so much Power and Strength conferred on him, that by terror thereof he is inabled to conforme the wills of them all, to Peace at home, and mutuall ayd against their enemies abroad'.332 But when he summarises his theory of sovereignty at the end of Leviathan, he instead chooses...
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Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes - 2002 - 664 pages
...the immortal God, our peace and defense. For by this authority, given him by every particular man in the commonwealth, he hath the use of so much power and strength conferred [88] on him that, by terror thereof, he is enabled to conform4 the wills of them all to peace at home...
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Religion and Its Monsters

Timothy Kandler Beal - 2002 - 262 pages
...use of so much Power and Strength conlerred on him, that by terror thereot, he is inabled to conforme the wills of them all to Peace at home, and mutuall ayd agamst their enemies abroad. Hobbes thus conceives the commonwealth as a human creation, through covenant,...
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The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Impossibility of Reason

Mads Qvortrup - 2003 - 162 pages
...1650: 64). In order to avoid this Hobbes would transfer all power to a 'mortal god', who would have the 'use of so much power and strength . . . conferred...terror thereof he is inabled to forme the wills of all of them to peace at home, and mutuall ayd against their enemies abroad' (Hobbes 1650: 89-90). Rousseau...
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