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The 17 pages that link to Consent of the governed, each with the reason it gives.

• LiberalismRelated: It explains how liberalism can justify government while restricting its power.

• Political legitimacyRelated: Consent is a prominent basis for claiming a government has a right to rule.

• John LockeRelated: Consent is the basis of Locke’s account of legitimate political power.

• Social contractRelated: Consent is the contract’s central basis for legitimate rule.

• Popular sovereigntyRelated: It is the central justification for popular sovereignty’s claim that people authorize government.

• Antonio GramsciRelated: Gramsci’s theory asks how consent is produced through institutions, habits, and cultural leadership.

• Classical liberalismRelated: It explains why government power needs authorization rather than inherited or absolute rule.

• United States Declaration of IndependenceRelated: The declaration uses consent to explain when people may alter or abolish a government.

• Democratic LegitimacyRelated: Democratic procedures are a principal way of expressing and renewing consent.

• PoliceRelated: Public cooperation and perceived legitimacy affect whether policing can function.

• Political authorityRelated: Consent explains authority as arising from the governed rather than imposed upon them.

• State of natureRelated: Locke uses consent to explain how people may authorize political society.

• Limited governmentRelated: Popular authorization can legitimate government without making its powers unlimited.

• Tax resistanceRelated: Disputes over taxation often turn on whether citizens have meaningfully consented through democratic institutions.

• Lysander SpoonerRelated: His critique of government turned on whether anyone had actually consented to its authority.

• Mayflower CompactRelated: The agreement records signers’ consent to form a political body and accept its laws.

• Two Treatises of GovernmentRelated: Locke makes consent the basis for forming political society and government.