On the contrary, the political machine can provide drawbacks for the government, its officials, and the ignorant and or innocent citizens because it can lead to a series of negative outcomes for the people, specifically those whose views or opinions contradict that of the machine. An example of this can be found in the 1939 film, Mr. Viewing the central government as a monster proves to be beneficial for the politicians, their lobbyists, and citizens who support their causes. Using the metaphor of a monster from Hobbes’ work, or the term political machine accurately describes the central government because it describes what the political landscape has looked like in America, in the past and how it continues to appear present day.

Which when compared to the United States’ government, it looks very different. Hobbes then gives his outline for the political monster and the political machine inside the government and states that the best form of government is an absolute monarchy.

In the book, Hobbes uses a monster from the Bible, the Leviathan to describe the government. The iconography of the frontispiece, created after detailed consultation with Hobbes by Parisian etcher Abraham Bosse, reflects many of the book's fundamental concepts the gigantesque sovereign-king is composed of over 300 tiny individuals, the contractual co-signers, who face away from the viewer towards their ruler, rendering him more powerful by their consent and the double columns beneath, whose panels represent the two sources of sovereign authority, ecclesiastical and temporal.In 1651, philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote the book Leviathan. His argument, drawn from experiencing the English Civil War, was that a contract between society and an absolute power was necessary to prevent a degradation into anarchy or the 'war of all against all'. ⁂ Hobbes is now widely regarded as among the greats of political philosophy and Leviathan, his most famous work, has been described as rivalling the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau and Kant in terms of political significance due to its early and influential development of the 'social contract theory' (Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy). with small marginal tears, occasional spotting and staining, worm hole from 2R2 onwards, very slightly affecting text, contemporary ink ownership inscription to title, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, re-backed, covers and extremities rubbed,, folio, for Andrew Crooke, 1651. Hobbes (Thomas) Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme & Power of a Common-Wealth, first edition, first issue, printed title with 'head' ornament, additional engraved pictorial title with paper restorations to upper corner (not affecting image) and light minor staining, folding letter press table with small tear to lower margin, initial 4 ff., including title, and a few other ff.

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