Sixty percent feel that the federal government today does not have the consent of the governed.
The rule of law rests on the consent of the governed in two ways.
The administrative state, in thrall to a decadent cultural elite, has lost the consent of the governed.
To win lasting legitimacy, such a confederation must be built with the active consent of the governed.
The rulers of these countries hold power by force and fear, not by the consent of the governed.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.
Did this massive new law have the consent of the governed?
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Consent of the governed: European leaders forget that at their peril.
This vision continues to transform the world toward unalienable rights, toward governments drawing legitimacy from securing these rights, and that governments draw their just powers from the consent of the governed.
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This states that some concepts, such as the illegality of slavery, the idea all people are created equal, and that governments serve only with the consent of the governed, transcend the written law of legislators and judges.
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We are slowly but steadily withdrawing the all important "consent of the governed" and demanding that our political leaders recede back to the representative status envisioned by the Constitution, and by Thomas Paine's Common Sense and by the Declaration of Independence.
If our democracy is to have meaning and if our lives and country are to be defended, we need to empower our elected leaders to stand up to those - like Brom, Speigel and Dekel -who work actively to subvert the principle of government by consent of the governed.
An implicit or indirect tax, by popular consent of the governing and governed, is not a tax at all and is therefore employed.
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