Talk:Consent of the governed

This phrase is often attributed to John Locke, but the idea was around much earlier. Consent of the governed appears in the Scottish Declaration of Arbroath (1320) which states that lord Robert, because of "Divine Providence" along with "the due consent and assent of us all, have made him our prince and king."

in US

The article is quite US-centric. I don't see anything wrong with that as soon as the subject _is_ in itself such, but in which case it'd be better from the very start to say "in US" or similar. In another case, the article would need expanding.

In the See Also section, there is an editorial line that should be deleted

Link to "Civilocity" article

I moved the link to the artice "Civilocity" from "Further Reading" to "External Links," since it's an eternal link.

However, I question the value of this link at all, and suggest that the article it links to meets criteria 2, 11, and 13, and possibly criterion 4, of the Links-to-be-avoided guideline. I would like some other editors to review the article to see if we can reach consensus about removing it.

--Tedd (talk) 13:11, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

found it. online no less!

http://books.google.com/books?id=gtp1ISdFAakC&pg=PA242&lpg=PA242&dq=%22legitimacy+in+governance+is+a+constitutional+matter&source=bl&ots=S7N31Z-sE3&sig=_QdS7pvWnn3gmT3laRxTPQtuzFI&hl=en&ei=oB_vSoSuGeaJlQehsoHgAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CA0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22legitimacy%20in%20governance%20is%20a%20constitutional%20matter&f=false

can someone help me format this as a citation IF any one else objects to my edit & reverts? thanks. Skakkle (talk) 18:08, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Sources of consent

We should probably mention the (flawed) theories that by driving on government roads, or voting, one consents to be taxed or otherwise governed. I just haven't found reliable sources speaking in favor of those arguments, perhaps because those arguments are so indefensible. Tisane ^talk/_stalk 16:10, 5 July 2010 (UTC)