mutual agreement. There can be no prior requirement that either the procedure or arbitrator should always get things right or produce the correct answer. The sovereign does not provide the kind of certainty needed to ensure that his judgment will always coincide with the truth. Any sovereign, or any arbitrator, can make a mistake but the judgment made, in particular circumstances, stands nevertheless. Not because it is his private sentence; but because he gives it by authority of the sovereign ... which is Law." .Hobbes certainly does not totally preclude dissent and he emphasizes that any decision made by the sovereign must be fair and just. But once a decision has been made, it is binding, and active civil disobedience thereafter is prohibited. One’s private judgment may be in fundamental disagreement with the decision; one may believe that it is essentially wrong; that it runs counter to the best interests of the commonwealth; but, nevertheless, one has a contractual obligation to obey, or face the consequences of the punishment power exercised by the sovereign.Hobbes characterizes the natural, hypothetical, state of man as one in which deadly human conflict is common. A state in which continuous conflict and violence exist, as each man seeks to preserve his life and property from the predations of others (the state of war of all against all). .His unique remedy for that condition, seen as an eradicable human characteristic in the state of nature, is to be found deeply embedded in a powerful logical argument in which he supports the concept of absolute sovereignty as a necessary and sufficient condition, for the formation of a genuine political union Hobbes advises us that, if there is a power that is limited within a peaceful and harmonious commonwealth, then it must be limited by a greater power. And, he argues, that the search for the greatest power in the commonwealth, the sovereign power will be realized when one comes t...
