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Thus no government is legitimate unless it enjoys the consent of the governed, and that consent cannot be rendered except through majority rule. Given these conclusions, it is somewhat surprising that Locke’s description of the different forms of government (he calls them “commonwealths”) does not explicitly prescribe democracy as the only legitimate system.
consent: by voluntarily giving express approval (presumably in speech or writing) to a compact, the terms of which stipulate that the citizens-to-be. agree to put themselves under the control of the government-to-be, the subse. quent actions of the government have been overtly consented to.
15 de ene. de 2001 · The Consent of the Governed. The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture. Gillian Brown. Hardcover. ISBN 9780674002982. Publication date: 01/15/2001. What made the United States what it is began long before a shot was fired at a redcoat in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1775. It began quietly in homes and schoolrooms across the colonies in the ...
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Walter Lippmann. What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. Votes: 3. Woodrow Wilson. Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed. Votes: 3.
"In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the ...
11 de oct. de 2019 · We are a nation that has a government -- not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth. Our Government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.
