HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
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The government should include a separation of powers.
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Government must preserve the people’s rights.
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Religious toleration should triumph over religious fanaticism.
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The state must have absolute power.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Throughout his life, Hobbes believed that the only true and correct form of government was the absolute monarchy. Hobbes believed firmly in a monarch’s absolutism, or the belief in the king’s right to wield supreme and unchecked power over his subjects.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hobbes believed that a government headed by a king was the best form that the sovereign could take. Placing all power in the hands of a king would mean more resolute and consistent exercise of political authority, Hobbes argued.
Detailed explanation-3: -These three things-competition, distrust, and the desire for glory-throw humankind into a state of war, which is for Hobbes the natural condition of human life, the situation that exists whenever natural passions are unrestrained.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hobbes envisaged an alienation contract whereby humans in the SN give up their right to govern themselves to an absolute sovereign, on the condition that everyone else does the same. The sovereign is not bound by any contract; it is only between subjects.