Is the Sovereign a Threat to the State?

Most parts of our lives will not be covered by law, but under the hobsian arrangement, the sovereign gets to decide which those parts are. You can never be sure that the sovereign won't suddenly decide that something that seemed to you to be your personal concern is a threat to the state. Some things are almost certainly going to require sovereign decision - like war and peace. But for instance, religion, the biggest source of conflict in the seventeenth century. Hobbs is literally agnostic on the question of whether the sovereign ought to heavily regulate, partially regulate, or actually be pretty tolerant about religion. He really meant by profitable just to do whatever seems best. That's what we all