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How did thomas hobbes define property?

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Updated: 11/5/2022

Hobbes said that the origin of private property is also the origin of the state. Hobbes stated that property exists only after the creation of a sovereign power capable of enforcing contracts. He also kept to the idea that the subjects have no property rights at all against the sovereign.

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