In chapter nine of Thomas Hobbes book entitled “Leviathan or The Matter, Former and Power of A Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil” he raises the argument that in the state of Nature we are equal, but not in the ways that you think. Hobbes also lays the groundwork for American Constitutionalism, by one of course stating that we are equal, secondly by calling the state of Nature war, and setting up that peace is only obtainable through Government, and lastly he sets up the reasons for wanting to be peaceful.
