Who argued in "leviathan" that the state was powerful because it represented the collective power given up by the people?

Answer;

Thomas Hobbes

Explanation;

-Hobbes believed that the only true and correct form of government was the absolute monarchy. He argued this most forcefully in his landmark work, Leviathan.

-This belief stemmed from the central tenet of Hobbes' natural philosophy that human beings are, at their core, selfish creatures. According to Hobbes, the lives of individuals in the state of nature were; solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short, a state in which self-interest and the absence of rights and contracts prevented the social, or society.

jewish people sniffed up all of the money, thus making it hard for society

in 1862, president lincoln's emancipation proclamation opened the door for african americans to enlist in the union army. although many had wanted to join the war effort earlier, they were prohibited from enlisting by a federal law dating back to 1792.

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