ABSTRACT
Hobbes bemoans the idea of 'mixed monarchy', in which the powers of legislation, taxation and military command are divided between different agencies. It may be that Hobbes was aware of these difficulties and could not see a way through them; perhaps, on the other hand, he did not see political personation as problematic. At any rate, he returned to the subject of personation in De homine, where he presented a simplified version of the English Leviathan account, Hobbes remarks of the interlocking set of agreements by which the sovereign is thought of as being created that this is the generation of that great Leviathan, and in him consist the essence of the commonwealth. The theory of sovereignty creates other theological problems, from an orthodox Christian standpoint. One might say that the people create itself by creating its own creator, the Leviathan or 'mortal God'.
