The sovereign and, again, this is crucial, is for Hobbes, the representative of the people.

霍布斯还认为君主就是人民的代表，也是一个国家主权的象征。

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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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