...them from invasion of foreigners, and the injuries of one another ... is to confer all their power and strength upon one man, or upon one assembly of men,...may reduce all their wills, by plurality of voices, into one will. . . . This is more than consent or concord; it is a real unity of them all ... made...

...of the earth, they may nourish themselves and live contentedly ; is, to confer all their power and strength upon one man, or upon one assembly of men,...and every one to own, and acknowledge himself to be author of whatsoever he that so beareth their person, shall act, or cause to be acted, in those things...

...fruits of the earth they may nourish themselves and live contentedly, is to confer all their power and strength upon one man, or upon one assembly of men,...and every one to own and acknowledge himself to be author of whatsoever he that so beareth their person shall act, or cause to be acted, in those things...

...(my translation). 14 'The only way to erect ... a Common Power ... is, to confer all their power and strength upon one Man, or upon one Assembly of men,...their Wills, by plurality of voices, unto one Will.' T Hobbes, Leviathan (1651), R Tuck (ed), (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996), at 120. 15...

...invasion of Forraigners, and the injuries of one another [...] is, to conferre all their power and strength upon one Man, or upon one Assembly of men,...their wills, by plurality of voices, unto one Will [...] and therein to submit their Wills every one to his Will, and their Judgements to his Judgment....

...unlimited. "The only way", says Hobbes, "to erect such a common power.... is to confer all their power and strength upon one man or upon one assembly of men, that may reduce all their wills by plurality of voice, unto one will". (14) The contract is binding on the whole community as a perpetual bond. If...

...of many persons. The act of creating the state is one in which men . . .confer all their power and strength upon one man, or upon one assembly of men, that may reduce all their will, by plurality of voices, unto one will: which is as much as to say, to appoint one man, or assembly...

...confer all their power and strength upon one man, or upon one assembly of men . . . which is as much to say, to appoint one man or assembly of men to bear their person. (Hobbes 132) The metaphor of the nation-person has long been applied across diverse political and cultural...

...benefit. The only way to erect such a common power ... is to confer all their power and strength on one man, or upon one assembly of men, that may reduce all of their wills, by plurality of voices, to one will ... And he that carrieth this person, is called...

...benefit. The only way to erect such a common power ... is to confer all their power and strength on one man, or upon one assembly of men, that may reduce all of their wills, by plurality of voices, to one will . . . And he that carrieth this person, is called...