Leviathan
by Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes advocated a social contract and government as an absolute sovereign. Under the influence of the English Civil War, Hobbes wrote that chaos or civil war situations were identified with the state of nature and the famous slogan Bellum omnium contra omnes ("war of all against all") - only a strong central government could be prevented. Thus, he denied any right of rebellion in relation to the social contract, which would later be added by John Locke and protected by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. (However, Hobbes discussed the possible dissolution of the State, since a social contract was signed to create a state that would ensure the "peace and defense" of the people, the treaty would become invalid when the government no longer protected its citizens (due to this fact, man would automatically return to his state of nature until a new treaty was made).
