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Comment: “Hobbes relieved sovereignty completely from the disabilities which Bodin 4. had inconsistently left standing.” (Sabine)

  • UPSC 1998
  • Western Political Thought

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George H. Sabine passes this verdict in the chapter on Thomas Hobbes of A History of Political Theory (1937). It measures Leviathan (1651) against Jean Bodin's Six Livres de la République (1576), the first systematic theory of sovereignty. Sabine is right about the logic of legal supremacy. "Completely" overstates it, because Hobbes moved the limits…

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  • Bodin's Sovereign and Its Disabilities
  • How Hobbes Removed Them
  • Was the Relief Complete?
  • The Indian Anchor
  • Conclusion
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