. The two most influential English political philosophers of that period-and since-Hobbes and locke,outline ideal models of government of a distinctly Individualist hue .In their view, the state’s function was to protect a citizen’s individual liberties and interfere with any citizen’s actions only when those actions violated another individual’s right to act freely.For both,society is nothing more than an agglomeration of individuals:it has no reality independent of the individuals that make it up.