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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It is only in the state of nature, he tells us, that individuals have the right to determine just and unjust, right and wrong for themselves.

他认为，只有在自然社会中，个人才有权力决定,什么是公正，不公正，什么是对什么是错。

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: "All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one, "-- a lot to backed that up in social science research.

爱默生说：,“人类历史是少数派，和一个人的少数派的权力记录，很多社会科学研究支持这个观点。

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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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