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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
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Freiherr von Pufendorf
Samuel, baron von Pufendorf
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William of Auxerre
French philosopher
Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut
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Léon Duguit
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James Lorimer
Scottish legal philosopher
Emmerich de Vattel
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