...defines a commonwealth: "One person, of whose Acts a great Multitude, by mutuall Covenants one with another, have made themselves every one the Author,...think expedient for their Peace and Common Defence" (Hobbes, p. 228). A state, reinterpreting this slightly, is an abstract person who represents the people...

...man at all. The only way to erect such a common power, as may be 326 Hobbes's English Works. [Jan. able to defend them from the invasion of foreigners,...University of Oxford had taken upon itself the honors of introducing into the world for the second time a heresy so exploded, notwithstanding that its error...

...of whose acts a great multitude, by mutual covenants one with another, have made themselves everyone the author, to the end he may use the strength and...think expedient, for their peace and common defence. And he that carrieth this person is called Sovereign, and said to have Sovereign Power; and everyone...