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...can establish a body politic. The only way for security us "to confer all their power and strength on one man, or upon •one assembly of men, that may reduce all their wills, by plurality of voices, to one will." ' We must, then, consider the state of nature as lasting until the desired security is...

...way to erect such a coercive power, and thus to escape from the natural condition of war, is for men ''to confer all their power and strength upon one...may reduce all their wills, by plurality of voices, into one will * * * This is more than consent or concord ; it is a real unity of them all, in one and...

...to erect such a coercive power, and thus to escape from the natural condition of war, is for men '' to confer all their power and strength upon one man,...may reduce all their wills, by plurality of voices, into one will * * * This is more than consent or concord ; it is a real unity of them all, in one and...

...that law of nature which dictates self-preservation. " The only way to erect a common power among men, is to confer all their power and strength upon one...one assembly of men that may reduce all their wills into one will; which is as much as to say to appoint one man or assembly of men to bear their persons,...

...may be able to defend them from the invasion of foreigners and the injuries of one another,' men ' confer all their power and strength upon one man or upon one assembly of men, . . . ie 'appoint one man or assembly of men to bear their person. . . . This is more than consent...

...be established in the following manner : A large number of individuals may assemble together and " confer all their power and strength upon one man, or upon one assembly of men, ... to bear their person ; and every one to own and acknowledge himself to be author of whatsoever...

...XVIII u. 115 ff. Da heifst es ua: „The only way to erect such a Common Power . . . is to confere all their power and strength upon one Man, or upon...one Assembly of men, that may reduce all their Wills . . . This is the Generation of that great Leviathan, or rather . . . of that Mortall God, to which...

...itself dear to Tory minds. But how was this unity to be achieved ? By conferring, he answers, ' all power and strength upon one man or upon one assembly...plurality of voices unto one will ; which is, as much to say, to appoint one man or assembly of men to bear their person. . . . This is the generation of...

...to give up their natural rights of war, and "to confer all their power and strength upon one man or one assembly of men, that may reduce all their wills by plurality of voices to one will."9 Thus the Leviathan or sovereign is erected by the mutual contract to maintain peace...