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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This person held to the idea that people are naturally born wicked and government must keep order in society.
A
Voltaire
B
Montesquieu
C
Thomas Hobbes
D
John Locke
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Hobbes also considers humans to be naturally vainglorious and so seek to dominate others and demand their respect. The natural condition of mankind, according to Hobbes, is a state of war in which life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” because individuals are in a “war of all against all” (L 186).

Detailed explanation-3: -Thomas Hobbes believed that all humans are naturally selfish and wicked and prone to fighting. He said that in order to escape a bleak life, people should give up their rights to a strong leader who would give them law and order.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hobbes is famous for his early and elaborate development of what has come to be known as “social contract theory”, the method of justifying political principles or arrangements by appeal to the agreement that would be made among suitably situated rational, free, and equal persons.

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