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Hobbes grounds the citizens’ obligation to obey the law by on the promise of obedience. He explicitly says that a person ‘is obliged by his contracts, that is, that he ought to perform for his promise sake’. Third, Hobbes knew that the danger to the stability of the state did not arise from the self interest of all its ordinary citizens, but rather from the self interest of a few powerful persons who would exploit false moral views. He regarded it as one of the most important duties of the sovereign to combat these false views, and to put forward true views about morality, including is relationship to religion