Juan Ponce de Leon did exploration for SPAIN.
He was comissioned as governor of Puerto Rico by King Ferdinand. In 1513, Ponce de León led the first known European expedition to La Florida. He returned to Spain in 1514 and was knighted by King Ferdinand, who also reinstated him as the governor of Puerto Rico ( he got into problems with Diego Columbus - son of Christopher Columbus- who took away from him the government from Puerto Rico for almost two years) and authorized him to settle Florida
For the very reason that us as Americans have been in this two-party system for so long that we would want to keep this tradition rather than to add another party, and oppose eachother even more. Also, voters feel that having a third party vote is irrelevant because it is less likely to be voted for and won over.
<u>Answer:</u> Hobbes believed people exchange their <u>personal liberty</u> for protection and security under a government.
<u>Explanation/detail:</u>
Thomas Hobbes published a famous work called <em>Leviathan</em> in 1651. The title "Leviathan" comes from a biblical word for a great and mighty beast. Hobbes believed government is formed by people for the sake of their personal security and stability in society. In Hobbes view, once the people put a king (or other leader in power), then that leader needs to have supreme power (like a great and mighty beast). Hobbes' view of the natural state of human beings without a government held that people are too divided and too volatile as individuals -- everyone looking out for his own interests. So for security and stability, authority and the power of the law needs to be in the hands of a powerful ruler like a king or queen. And so people willingly enter a "social contract" in which they live under a government that provides stability and security for society.
Probably the most famous set of lines from Hobbes' <em>Leviathan </em>book describes what he saw as the natural state of human affairs without government -- one in which every individual had freedom, but that meant it was a situation of "war of all against all," or we might say, every man for himself. Hobbes wrote:
- <em>In such condition, there is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing, such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is </em><em>worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.</em>
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