How Did Thomas Hobbes Contribute To Democracy

In the prior times in American society in the early and late 17th century, the American people had endured and experienced the oppression of the Britain monarchies and their laws. Furthermore, the citizens had to pay heavy taxes on Britain imports, sugar and even stamps in order to pay off war debts from the French and Indian War. The American citizens had enough of the tyranny,thus leading a rebellion of overthrown the monarchy, and finally the starting point of the American Revolution. In the aftermath of the Revolution, the American society were in turmoil as they began to establish a new government; however, the Constitution were in doubt that they were able to contemplate how to restrict or limit people’s rights and government’s authority. In the depths of American society, there

people with whom has a practical and intellectual mind of beliefs by creating peace resolutions are well known as philosophers. The philosophers who had high principles with creating a society where the people have natural equal rights. There were actually many variety of different philosophers based on their beliefs; although, there were four main influential philosophers in American history: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, Baron de Montesquieu, last but not least, John Locke.

Keywords: Thomas Hobbes, Baron de Montesquieu, and John Locke. Thomas Hobbes. Thomas Hobbes was not only a philosopher, but also a scientist, as well, who has theory of all humanity that the human citizens with whom doesn’t quite deserve democracy. Hobbes’ pessimistic belief upon humanity that the people who were born to become corrupted, malevolent, treacherous humans has the inner urge to self-indulge themselves of gaining property through theft and the possibility of causing death and absolute anarchy. As his major work “ Leviathan” claims that the government only came to existence of providing the protection of the people. If the people were to resigned their rights to a strong monarch of the government, that the citizens might be able to acknowledge both death and despair. His ideal of providing the natural rights of the people and also the government's authority completely contradicts to Locke's

philosophy. Baron de Montesquieu. Baron de Montesquieu was a writer yet also a philosopher who was quite notably well known for his ideal theory: the separation of powers. Montesquieu's influential work has made a major impact upon dividing French society into three representations of the government: legislative, judicial, and the executive. Including based on his ideology, Montesiquie also separated the supreme authority of the government into three sections: the commons, the aristocracy, and the monarchy