Hobbes and Locke are considered famous political theorists. Hobbes argued that man is naturally a bad creature. Therefore, government, particularly monarchy, was necessary to restrain man's bestial tendencies because life without government was the "state of nature." He claimed that without written, enforceable rules people would live like animals - foraging for food, stealing, and killing when necessary. To escape the trauma of the natural state and to protect their lives, men must give up to government certai
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