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Woodrow Wilson: It realizes Hobbes’s definition of liberty as political power divided into small fragments.

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It realizes Hobbes’s definition of liberty as political power divided into small fragments.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Wilson reflects on the fragmentation of political power as defined by Hobbes.

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