...cease to exist and merge into the one person represented by the sovereign. "This is the generation of that great Leviathan, or rather, to speak more reverently,...owe under the immortal God, our peace and defence." The covenanting men agree "to submit their wills, every one to his will, and their judgments to his...

...multitude so united in one person, is called a COMMONWEALTH, in Latin CIVITAS. This is the generation of that great LEVIATHAN, or rather, to speak more reverently,...which we owe under the immortal God, our peace and defense. (Emphasis added) By establishing borders between states and permitting rulers to be sovereign...

...Generation of that great LEVIATHAN, or rather (to speake more reverendy) of that Mortall God, to which wee owe under the Immortal God, our peace and defence. For by this Authontic, given him by every particular man in the Common-Wealth, he hath the use of so much Power...

...conformed in many respects to the concept of sovereignty in Thomas Hobbes: "For by this Authoritie, given him by every particular man in the Common-Wealth,...Strength conferred on him, that by terror thereof, he is inabled to forme the wills of them all, to Peace at home, and mutuall ayd against their enemies abroad."22...

...multitude so united in one person, is called a Commonwealth, in Latin Civitas. This is the generation of that great Leviathan, or rather, to speak more reverently,...which we owe under the immortal God, our peace and defense" (1961, 151). By establishing borders between states and permitting rulers to be sovereign...

...called a commonwealth, in Iatin. cirita.i. This is the generation of that great LEVIATHAX. or rather 1to speak more reverently) of that mortal God to which...under 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...

...integrate the divine and the secular when he acknowledges the supreme Representer for the first time as "that great Leviathan, or rather (to speak more reverently) of that Mortal! God, to which we owe under the Immortall God, our peace and defence."169 The Representer is a leviathan because, like the mythical...

...required monarchial supervention—but he had from the outset constructed the figure of the Leviathan, "that Mortal God, to which we owe under the Immortal God, our peace and defence" according to the concept of personhood—the "real Unitie of them all, in one and the same Person"...

...peaceably and fairly with our fellow humans. Thomas Hobbes proposed the concept of the Leviathan, denned as "that mortal god, to which we owe under the immortal God; our peace and defence." The Leviathan might simply be a system of government that we empower to resolve disputes, justly we...

...words, and of no strength to secure a man at all." Thus is created "that great LEVIATHAN [the state], or rather, to speak more reverently, of that mortal...owe under the immortal God, our peace and defence. "46 John Locke begins with a view of natural man similar to Hobbes's. By nature humans are all in "a...