Part II, Chapter 29
Lists 'Things that Weaken, or tend to the Dissolution of a Common-wealth,' including reading classical books on liberty that breed love of tyrannicide.
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Hobbes enumerates doctrines that weaken or dissolve commonwealths, including the belief that subjects may judge good and evil, divided sovereignty, and tyrannicide.
Part II, Chapter 19
Compares forms of commonwealth and defends monarchy as superior to aristocracy and democracy.
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