MASTERWORKS OF POLITICAL THEORY Midterm Essay Niccolo Machiavelli, Martin Luther, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke were four political theorists who shared a like mind in the need for the foundation of government and the extent to which its power and authority should reach. ... Later in this same century, Martin Luther began publishing his own theories on how political systems should be constructed. ... Relying heavily on scripture, Martin Luther also proposed that God is the final judge in both the spiritual world and the secular world, and that mere princes can not hold themselves to be s...

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