He cannot therefore, in any circumstance, be in breach of covenant. N.B. Hobbes' account lends no support to the divine right of kings , for the king gains his support from the manmade covenant. The main point is not what form of constitution is set up, but that wherever sovereignty lies, it must be entire and indivisible. Hobbes is quite explicit in his statement that sovereign power is based on fear. There is no question of deriving the commonwealth and the legitimacy of sovereign power from either theological or metaphysical principles.
Sovereignty is inalienable.
Subjects may also disobey the sovereign if he can no longer protect his subjects.