The only way to erect such a Common Power, as may be able to defend them from . . . the injuries of one another, and thereby to secure them in such sort . . . is to confer [give] all their power and strength upon one Man, or upon one Assembly of men, that may reduce all their Wills, by plurality of voices, unto one Will. –Leviathan,
Thomas Hobbes,
1660

Which claim does Hobbes support in this passage?
People have the right to defend themselves against injuries from others.
People should be willing to give their government complete authority to rule.
People tend to elect assemblies that will support the will of the majority.
People act in their own best interests to secure their own wills.

What effect did john hay’s open door policy letters have on the imperial powers of britain, france, germany, russia, and japan? a. it provoked the imperial powers to declare war on the united states. b. it caused the imperial powers to restrict trade in their trade with china. c. it warned the imperial powers that the united states would soon declare war on china. d. it signaled to those powers that the united states would take a larger role in world affairs than before.

Read a report of the paris medical faculty from 1348 about the plague. we can say that the main cause of this pestilence was and is the configuration of the heavens. in 1345, at 1: 00 in the afternoon of march 20th, there was a major conjunction of three planets in the constellation of aquarius. this conjunction, along with others like it and the eclipse caused a deadly corruption of the air around us. what is the most likely reason this document would be important to a historian’s study of the black death? a) it shows the importance of astronomy in medicine today. b) it shows how medicine once differed in paris and london. c) it shows how the plague’s cause was interpreted in the past. d) it shows the desperation to find a cause of the black death.

What was one result of the spanish-american war