What Do You Give Up in Order to Achieve Peace?

Hobbes' view is that when we all covenant each with each to agree on a sovereign, that has the effect of turning the many into one. He says it's an artificial unity because it's the unity that's generated by agreeing that the will of the sovereign counts as the will of everybody. But what Hobbes says is that the name of this fictional entity is the state. It is the fiction that the sovereign represents. And so when the sovereign acts, the sovereign acts in the name of the state.