Thomas Hobbes believed that citizens must give up some of their liberties in exchange for order. Hobbes is best known for publishing his work titled "The Leviathan", which proposed the concept of social contract. Social contract argues that citizens must sacrifice some of their liberties to government in order to obtain protection of their other rights and privileges. In Leviathan, Hobbes proposes what society would be like without government, and that it would be one society with violence and a desire for protection of property and safety. In order to obtain these, citizens must sacrifice their rights by following certain laws in order to obtain a sense of order and peace within a structured society.
His advisers were important because they came from different backgrounds and supported different ideologies. The consequences were that he could hear various opinions and choose what he thought was best, which resulted in the New Deal which was a program that helped the country provide relief and recovery for victims of the Depression and help economy establish itself once again.
-- What/how to do the Reconstruction. > How to bring the states back, what punishment - how severe/etc.
<span>-- What to do with the African Americans. > Lincoln only freed the Southern slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation, and it was only a formality. [The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments show how the government dealt with this issue.] </span>
<span>-- How to regulate that the Reconstruction was happening. The South was very belligerent about the Reconstruction - and made its own list of rules (aka Jim Crow Laws) to undermine the rights given to the African Americans by the amendments ^.
I hope I helped a least a bit! :)</span>
