State of Nature
This person is not a part of the covenant that establishes the commonwealth.
Who is the sovereign?
This person is in charge of religious matters in the commonwealth.
Who is the sovereign?
The sovereign does not rule on the basis of this heavenly grant of authority.
What is the divine right of kings?
The absence of external impediments.
What is liberty?
Between the people with one another.
The covenant to establish a commonwealth is between what parties?
These are merely terms that indicate attraction and aversion, (like and dislike).
What are good and evil.
This comes from the consent of the governed.
What is the Sovereign's right to rule based on?
This is damage with injustice.
What is injury?
Even if the sovereign acts to harm the subjects, they do not have this right.
What is the right to kill, depose, punish or replace him.
These individuals are bound by the covenant even though they voted against it.
Who is the minority or dissenters?
This happens when people living together agree to transfer their right to all things to a common authority with the power to keep them all in awe.
What is the establishment of a commonwealth?
The facts that people lock their doors at night and try not to travel alone.
What are are some examples that Hobbes gives in support of his claim that the state of nature is a state of war?
This is the liberty to do whatever the sovereign has not prohibited.
What is the liberty of subjects?
These are the authors of all the acts of the sovereign.
Who are the people who make a covenant to establish a commonwealth?