Views of Machiavelli, Bodin and Hobbes on Sovereignty
After reading this article you will learn about the views of Machiavelli, Bodin and Hobbes on sovereignty. Machiavelli (1469-1527), Bodin (1529-1596) and Hobbes (1588-1679) dealt with the most important and vexed issue-the sovereignty. But Machiavelli did not directly analyse the idea. The interpreters of his political ideas, however, have deduced certain features of sovereignty from his long and variegated advice [...]