Book cover Leviathan

5. What Soever The Soveraigne Doth, Is Unpunishable By The Subject

Leviathan
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Thomas Hobbes
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5. What Soever The Soveraigne Doth, Is Unpunishable By The Subject

Fiftly, and consequently to that which was sayd last, no man that hath Soveraigne power can justly be put to death, or otherwise in any manner by his Subjects punished. For seeing every Subject is author of the actions of his Soveraigne; he punisheth another, for the actions committed by himselfe.