Who argued in "leviathan" that the state was powerful because it represented the collective power given up by the people?

Answer;

Thomas Hobbes

Explanation;

-Hobbes believed that the only true and correct form of government was the absolute monarchy. He argued this most forcefully in his landmark work, Leviathan.

-This belief stemmed from the central tenet of Hobbes' natural philosophy that human beings are, at their core, selfish creatures. According to Hobbes, the lives of individuals in the state of nature were; solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short, a state in which self-interest and the absence of rights and contracts prevented the social, or society.

citizens get the vast majority of their political and governmental information from the media, which includes television, print journalism, radio, and now the internet. the media play an important role in connecting people to government.

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