Assertion: government's power | /r/HasProperty | justified by reference
Facets:
value: to the individual(hobbes
type: OTHER
value: to the people
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Early modern defenders of absolutism (Absolute monarchy), such as Thomas Hobbes and Jean Bodin undermined the doctrine of the divine right of kings by arguing that the power of kings should be justified by reference to the people.
text: Hobbes in particular went further to argue that political power should be justified with reference to the individual(Hobbes wrote in the time of the English Civil War), not just to the people understood collectively.