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Let me talk for a while about some of the formal features of Hobbes' sovereign power, of the Hobbesian state.
接下来我要说说,霍布斯关于君主权力和他理想下的国家',应当具有的一些特征。
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He only insists that sovereign power remain absolute and undivided whether it belongs to a single person, a few, or the many.
他所强调的是,无论国家权力是掌控在个人手里,还是少数人或是集体手里，它都应当是绝对而不可分割的。
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indivisible sovereign power, Hobbes' insistence that the sovereign exercise complete control over the churches, over the university curricula, and over what books and opinions can be read and taught.
至于不可分割的君主权力，霍布斯坚持认为，君主可以,完全控制教会，控制大学的教学，控制什么书和思想,可以被阅读和传授。
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And yet, in many ways, this Hobbesian sovereign aims to allow for ample room for individual liberty And he even sets some limits on the legitimate use of sovereign power.
话虽如此，霍布斯眼中的君权,也还是为个人自由留下了足够的空间,他甚至对君主的合法权力,设定了一些限制。
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The sovereign holds total power over all the institutions of civilian and ecclesiastical life, holding sway over a kind of peaceable kingdom.
君主拥有绝对的权力,它高于所有的平民机构或是教会机构，支配着和平的国家。
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Hobbes in the Hobbesian doctrine of sovereignty, or the Hobbesian sovereign, to have a complete monopoly of power within his given territory.
在他的君主学说，或是霍布斯式的君主论中，霍布斯认为，在特定的领土中,存在着一种绝对的权利。
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Hobbes derives the very power of the sovereign from the natural right of each individual to do as they like in the state of nature.
他认为君主的权力源自于,人民原本在自然社会中,能自由行使的个人权力。
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Machiavelli speaks of the prince, while Hobbes speaks of the sovereign, that is a kind of impersonal or in Hobbes' language, artificial power created out of a contract.
马基雅维利探讨君主，而霍布斯则探讨主权，这算是不受个人感情影响的，在霍布斯的说法里，君主的权力是由契约产生的。
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Once we enter society, once we engage or conclude the social compact, we transfer our power to do this to the sovereign to determine these matters for us.
一旦我们进入到社会,参与到缔结的社会契约中，我们就已经把这些权力让渡给了国家,由国家来替我们决定这些事物。
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And, in that respect, Hobbes' sovereign has many of the features or characteristics that we come to associate with what we call modern executive power or executive authority.
从这个意义上讲,霍布斯的君主权力论,与我们现代所讲的,行政权和行政机关,有很多相似的特性。
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The power of the sovereign, Hobbes continually insists, must be unlimited.
霍布斯始终坚信，君主应当拥有绝对和无限的权力。
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And it is only the creation of the sovereign for Hobbes, endowed or possessed with absolute power, that is sufficient to put an end to the condition of perpetual uncertainty, anxiety and unrest that is the case of the natural condition.
对霍布斯而言,只有给君主，赋予绝对的权力，人们才足以结束,对这漫长的未知的恐惧，和对不安生活状态的疑虑,这才是现有条件下我们该做的。
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