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 As Hobbes wrote The Elements of Law he engaged himself with the political battles that lead finally to the first period of war in the English Civil Wars. For Hobbes, this meant dangerous times and in late 1640 he concluded that it was best to become an immigrant in Paris.

 . Hobbes stayed in France the entire period of the wars, 1640-1651

 There he wrote his two major political treatises De Cive (1642) and Leviathan (1651) which were published immediately, unlike The Elements of Law.

 In Leviathan the term revolution refers to the current situation in England after the Civil Wars when the commonwealth of England was about to establish.

 Here Hobbes seems to understand the revolution in two different registers.

 In the first register, he makes a connotation to the astronomical idea of revolution by pointing to the “constellation”.

 The second register is the fact that in Leviathan Hobbes sees revolution as some kind of breaking point.

 Some haveve dissolved the old government and those who are about to erect the new one.

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hasnain abbas

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