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Thomas Hobbes was born on April 5, 1588, In Westport England, When he was born his father fled to London leaving his wife and 3 young children behind. He ended up being raised and taught by his uncle because his mother could not take care of them. At a young age he decided to start studying subjects such as greek and latin. By the age of 25 he was attending Magdalen College, Oxford and studied other languages and cultures. He also ended up being the tutor of the first earl of Devonshire.

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De Cive, De Corpore, and De Hormine are trilogy of book which he wrote and published. These books described the chaos that came along with the English Civil war and has descriptive detail of certain events of which he lived through. In the first book his main topic of discussion was liberty of the war. In the next 2 books he discussed major scientific discoveries that could be related to what is happening in the war. He focused on scientists such as, Kepler, Galileo, and William Harvey.

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Hobbes Wrote a book called Leviathan, and this  book contained many different beliefs of his about the human nature. One of those being the fact that humans are naturally selfish creatures. "Humans will be at constant war with each other" he stated in the context that if there were no government or politics. His views were shaped by observing the English Civil war, this gave him an insight into what humans would be like without government. He believes that war comes naturally to humans yet political order is not something that would come easily. Hobbes stresses that in order for us to have a functioning society that we must have political order and civil disputes rather than an all out war.

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Hobbes connects the theory of inertia in physics to that of nature, man, and society. The law of inertia states, "bodies at rest tend to stay at rest; bodies in motion tend to stay in motion." He is referring to the fact that all three of those variables are connected and if one is affected then they all are. This is then related to how the government should be run. He states that the only reasonable solution for a government is sovereign authority. In other words this means that he believed in an absolute monarchy.

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His first belief is that humans are selfish by nature and cannot be trusted. He also believed That the English Civil war was a result of the lack of government. Another theory that he believed in was the social contract theory. This is when the monarch had all the power and the people had no right to rebel or riot. "Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" is the social contract tradition which he founded because this is what he saw in the human nature.

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The main way that Hobbes influenced the American Constitution and Declaration of Independence is through his "social contract theory." Hobbes expressed that it is in our nature to do what is best for ourselves at all costs and this is projected to our Constitution and Declaration of Independence because we are basically under a contract to protect our own rights and needs. The social contract that he discovered many years ago is now the foundation of our country because his works influenced our founding fathers into doing so.