Why did Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651) enrage both royalists and supporters of Parliament?
A) Hobbes championed the concept of "divine right," but only for Catholic monarchs who received the blessing of the pope.
B) Hobbes argued in favor of pluralism, a maximizing of the social classes and religious sects represented in the House of Commons.
C) Hobbes favored a social contract as the basis for governmental legitimacy while championing absolutist rule (by either king or Parliament) .
D) Hobbes called for a confederation of England and France as a correction to the "unsatisfactory" settlement of the Thirty Years' War.
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