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Who among the following argued, 'actual justice cannot be achieved except within a sovereign state' ?

  • A.Rawls
  • B.Cohen
  • C.Thomas Hobbes
  • D.Julius Stone

Answer: C

The argument is Thomas Hobbes'.

In Leviathan (1651) Hobbes held that in the state of nature, without a common power to keep people in awe, there is no law and therefore no justice or injustice. Justice exists only once a sovereign has been set up to make and enforce covenants, so it can be achieved only within a sovereign state.

Rawls grounds justice in principles chosen behind a veil of ignorance, Julius Stone wrote on the province and function of law and on justice in a sociological sense, and Cohen is not associated with this claim.

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