Social Studies - With which of the following statements would both Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

With which of the following statements would both Thomas Hobbes and John Locke most probably have agreed? 

(A) Government authority is created as the result of a social contract. 

(B) Government must enforce religious law to prevent moral decay. 

(C) Government must enforce the majority’s will regardless of the wishes of the minority. 

(D) Government must bend to the will of the educated minority.

Answer: 

Option (A) is correct. 

Hobbes and Locke both agreed that government authority was established through a social contract, although their views of the nature of that authority differed.