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"That to ecure rights, Governments are instituated among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the Governed" (N/A 3-4). This idea was created by Hobbes himself and later refined by Locke for his "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" piece on the Declaration as well.
http://usembassynigeria.blogspot.com/2013/07/3-secret-founding-fathers-of.html?m=1

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The Influence of            Thomas Hobbes  

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The Influence of            Thomas Hobbes  

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by: Enrique Chavez

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(2) Due to humanities selfishness we would be in constant fighting with each other. He based this off of seeing how the English Civil War was turning out to be with the barbaric beheading of the King
https://study.com/academy/lesson/thomas-hobbes-john-locke-political-theories-competing-views.html

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(1) Hobbes believed in the idea that the people should let an individual or a larger group decide on political and social matters on their behalf. This can be seen in the Republicans and Democrats as they are elected to represent the masses.

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(3) He believes that happiness can only come through an "authoritarian-sounding sovereign" (Williams 26) to which it pointing out that this is mankind's fate if we seek out true happiness.
https://www.iep.utm.edu/hobmoral/

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(4) His views on religion labeled him as a different atheist than what we know it being today because he believed in God but not in the story of Jesus and similar tales.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes/#3

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(5) Believed that freedom came at the cost of being without an enemy to fight. This of course conflicts with his other view that humanity would once again start to fight one another