“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” so said ... can say with a straight face that “No one will know until this is actually ...

While I feel that your "open door" to your correspondents is a boon to your readers, of which I avail myself gladly, I also feel that it is one that ... on "The Consent of the Governed." ...

What I believe is that, as I say in my column, authority rests on the consent of the governed – and it does so in every system, in monarchies, autocracies and one-party dictatorships as well ...

What does “consent of the governed” mean? “Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government and form a new one that ...

The Declaration of Independence states that governments derive their just powers from “the consent of the governed ... taxed to a breaking point, and one has to wonder if they will consent ...