Which concepts best relate to the ideas of thomas hobbes? check all that apply.
1. natural rights
2. social contract
3. checks and balances
4. absolute government
5. separation of powers
6. representative government

the correct answer is actually 2 (social contract) and 4 (absolute government) trust me i just got it correct

2. social contract and  4. absolute government

The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679) firmly sustained these ideas in his book named "Leviathan: The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil (1651).

In the book, the author finds necessary a "social contract", a contract in which all individuals in a society cede their natural rights (even meaning that they had to accept abuses of power) to an absolute government, in order to establish a civil society, receive protection, avoid conflicts, maintain peace and live better.

Without this form of government and without the social contract, people would live in the "state of nature", that is to say, in solitude, insecurity and in a nasty and brutish way, where conflicts would reign.

while it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.

explanation:

before eli whitney's invention of the cotton gin, picking and cleaning cotton was a slow, labor-intensive job. workers, usually slaves, had to pick the seeds from the cotton fibers by hand. this invention made it possible to grow large amounts of cotton on big farms and make money.