Bodin and Hobbes. The new reality of sovereignty of the State was givea its philosophical justification by a Frenchman, Jean nd an Englishman Thomas H each writing during the full agony of the civil and religious hrs of his country, the former at the beginning and the atter in the middled the seventeenth century. Both Bodin and Hobbes defended the need for on single unified authorivy, which should be accepted by all and against whichn group or individual could raise the objection of any earlier rights to inde i pendence or resistance. Rights were what the State granted, compatible with the unity of the State and keeping of peace and order within it. There could only one power within theeommunity. they urged, which could ited gr divided Emotstared. Bodim sovereig was however, subje ta f limitation irstl as the id not possess supermundane sovereignty God was above him econ the supreme power of the king over his subjects was w of God and nature that is, to the requirements subordinated of the moral order Thirdly, he French King could not modify the succession or any part of pub omain, and, nally the king could not touch privay ntained, did not limit the power property. But these limitations, Bod the king over the body.politic. His assertion that the Prince was the imagest God meant that he was a sovereign living person authority the whole political community just as God transcended the cosmos. Be said either sove eant nothing or supreme power ruling th entire body polit Me thus defined sovereignty as power citizen s itself not oound by the la It gave orders and recei orders from none In this way, the concept of sovereignty took a definite form at the mon when mnnarrhv was beoinniny rnake its npearance in Euro