Exploring the Difference between Acquiescence and True Consent to Government

Exploring the distinction between passive acceptance and authentic consent to the government, emphasizing the right of the people to reclaim their sovereignty and the fallacy of merely changing political figures.

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Tracing its roots back to John Locke, the Mayflower Compact – and even earlier – the “consent of the governed” was one of the most important principles in the Declaration of Independence, and was the foundation for the formation of the Constitution as well. But, as Lysander Spooner argued – the notion that “all the people” consent exists only in theory.

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