“ In the making of a Common-wealth, every man giveth away the right of defending another ”
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651). copy citation
Author | Thomas Hobbes |
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Source | Leviathan |
Topic | wealth right |
Date | 1651 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm |
Context
“For by that which has been said before, no man is supposed bound by Covenant, not to resist violence; and consequently it cannot be intended, that he gave any right to another to lay violent hands upon his person. In the making of a Common-wealth, every man giveth away the right of defending another; but not of defending himselfe. Also he obligeth himselfe, to assist him that hath the Soveraignty, in the Punishing of another; but of himselfe not. But to covenant to assist the Soveraign, in doing hurt to another, unlesse he that so covenanteth have a right to doe it himselfe, is not to give him a Right to Punish.”
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