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.
But I believe it's going to produce a quiet revolution in relations between government and the governed.
The rulers of these countries hold power by force and fear, not by the consent of the governed.
Closure strictly constrains the benefits technology can bring and separates the aspirations of the governed from the governing.
In such states, the governors are accountable at periodic elections, to the governed.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
But did this central idea neutralize the historical evidence that all governments eventually serve themselves at the expense of the governed?
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It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.
At a time when many of the governed are unhappy and impatient, the international community faces a real test of its capacity and will.
Did this massive new law have the consent of the governed?
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Foreign ownership of media has always been especially controversial: after all, in democracies, the media are the main channel between the governed and the government.
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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And in an impassioned defence of the plans on Monday, former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown said constitutional reform was needed to "bridge the dangerous gap between the government and the governed".
However, the same power given to people seeking to connect the governing to the governed also gives the world's criminals and terrorists powerful tools to build sophisticated networks through which to perpetuate fraud, graft, and violence.
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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Its citizens understand to the point of heartbreak the responsibility of the government and the governed to provide the greatest degree of justice and the most unrestricted individual freedoms while at the same time serving the welfare of the group.
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.
When they turn this privilege into a right to distribute government largess in ever larger quantities and in ways, to use Jefferson's phrase, a "wise and frugal government" would not it is those in government, and not the governed, who bear the responsibility for our budgetary problems.
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But was consent actually given by the governed for pension policies and bond indebtedness in Detroit so generous and so large as to be unsustainable or did politicians there take those votes and feather their own political nests with the current and future earnings of the governed?
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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.
The Duvaliers governed with the help of their notoriously violent hired thugs, the Tontons Macoutes.
"We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration because it is similar to regimes in our countries, half of which are governed by the military and the other half of which are governed by the sons of kings and presidents, " he said.
In the better version of Korea the one governed from Seoul the military appears unwilling to absorb further deadly blows from the North without retaliating.
As historian Paul Johnson has written, America around the time Hoover governed had the 16th largest army in the world, behind Romania.
The tight regulations which governed the whole process the petition forms were printed on bank security paper, for example makes it unlikely that many signatures will be disqualified.
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