For many years a tutor in the Cavendish family, Hobbes took great interest in mathematics, physics, and the contemporary rationalism. In his Six Bookes of a Commonweale (1576) Bodin asserted that the prince, or the sovereign, has the power to declare law. Click the link for more information. was the first theorist to formulate a modern concept of sovereignty.
His most notable book, Six livres de la republique (1576, tr. He studied and taught at Toulouse and enjoyed a successful legal career.
, 1530?–1596, French social and political philosopher. The concept of sovereignty has had a long history of development, and it may be said that every political theorist since Plato has dealt with the notion in some manner, although not always explicitly.
Sovereignty, supreme authority in a political community.
