“And first, it is manifest that law in general is not counsel, but command; nor a command of any man to any man, but only of him whose command us addressed to one formerly obliged to obey him. And as for civil law, it addeth only the name of the person commanding, which is persona civitas, the person of the commonwealth.”
That little fragment from Chapter XXVI of Thomas Hobbes’ “Leviathan” is only one of a number of issues we discuss in the latest episode of Sub Deo: “In which we commend lawyers to read Thomas Hobbes, and We Acknowledge Charlemagne the Dog.” For reflections on Hobbes and the law, and to discover who Charlemagne the Dog is, listen in!
