How Thomas Hobbes thinks a country should be governed

Governing a country is an extremely important matter. Many countries around the world have very different opinions on how this should be done. In “Hobbes Leviathan,” Thomas Hobbes claims that there are three distinct forms of government that can exist. The first of these is monarchy where there is a single sovereign person who rules with absolute power. The second is Democracy in which entire assemblies of people rule such that the assemblies are all considered one sovereign power. Last, an aristocracy in which an assembly of nominated people rule such that the assembly as a whole has the sovereign power. According to Hobbes, these are the only three forms of government and all others can be reduced to these. Also, Hobbes claims that Monarchy is the best of the three. Considering that Hobbes definitions of these three forms are all very general, I accept that any form of government can fit into one of them. However, I completely disagree that a monarchy is the best of the ...