Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State
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Is the State the Same as the Body of the People?
Crenchen Skinner says Hobbes's Leviathan is a fascinating theory of the state. But he doesn't see it as democratic and believes that only those who want peace have rights to keep them. Crenchen: "We do not think that the state is the same as the body of the people"
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