 How exactly Hobbes’ use of ‘demonstration’ should be understood as it relates to civil philosophy has been a subject of debate among Hobbes scholars over the past several decades. Much of the focus of this debate has been concerning the Laws of Nature in Leviathan XIV and XV. Why restrict the scope of demonstrable civil philosophy to two chapters of Leviathan? Why not include, for example, Leviathan Parts III (“Of A Christian Commonwealth”) and IV (“Of The Kingdom of Darkness”)? Alternatively, why not also include chapters from Part II (“Of Commonwealth”), especially chapter XVII (“Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth”)? One motivation for focus upon chapters XIV and XV is that in those chapters Hobbes seems to have indicated that he saw a deductive relationship between the laws of nature by using the language one might expect in a demonstration. For example, Hobbes described the second law of nature as being “derived from” the first law (LEV 200). The remainder of this section will focus on two ways of understanding Hobbes’ civil philosophy as a demonstration.