Quote: if men form a commonweath, the representative or leviathan speaks as one for all of them

Quotation

A Multitude of men, are made One Person, when they are by one man, or one Person, Represented; so that it be done with the consent of every one of that Multitude in particular. For it is the Unity of the Representer, not the Unity of the Represented, that maketh the Person One. ... And if the Representative consist of many men, the voyce of the greater number, must be considered as the voyce of them all. For if the lesser number pronounce (for example) in the Affirmative ... there will be Negatives more than enough to destroy the Affirmatives; and thereby the excesse of Negatives, standing uncontradicted, are the onely voyce the Representative hath.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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Quote: if the leviathan is an assembly, the voice of the majority is the voice of them all

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