Thomas Hobbes, the royalist, is above all famous for his social contact theory, the appeal to the agreement that would be made among rational, free and equal persons. His conclusion that we should submit to the authority of an absolute and unlimited sovereign power may not have found many followers, but his analysis remains unchallenged.
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