The rule of law rests on the consent of the governed in two ways.
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.
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.
At a time when many of the governed are unhappy and impatient, the international community faces a real test of its capacity and will.
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.
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".
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.
FORBES: Was The Declaration Of Independence Legal? Brits Will Argue 'No' Tomorrow
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.
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?
FORBES: Did 'Consent Of The Governed' Deliver Us Obamacare And Bell, CA?
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.
As historian Paul Johnson has written, America around the time Hoover governed had the 16th largest army in the world, behind Romania.
In four districts where the Bodos are in the majority the tribe is governed by the Bodoland Territorial Council, which enjoys considerable autonomy under India's supple constitution.
ECONOMIST: Assam��s largest tribe goes to war with its Muslims
The Commission is governed by the National Lottery etc Act 1993, which gives it overriding duties to licence a National Lottery that ensures the National Lottery is run and promoted with all due propriety, and that the interests of every participant are protected.
While Mr Inwood spends several pages describing the Great Fire of 1666, with the help of accounts by contemporaries such as Pepys and Clarendon, Mr Sheppard devotes a single paragraph to describing one of the seminal events in London's history before moving on to the rather less gripping subject of the planning regulations that governed the rebuilding of the city.
The LDP governed Japan for half a century before it was ousted by the DPJ in 2009.
Some think that, if it were to confine itself to the well-governed parts of the globe, the World Bank would scarcely warrant its title.
Like everything else, the labor market is governed by the laws of supply and demand.
Mr Davies is believed to have arrived on the French governed island on 7 November 2011.
BBC: Carl Davies killing: Three men charged on Reunion island
The military governed under martial law for 25 of its 52 years as an independent nation.
Labour put forward an amendment that would see the NCA governed by a separate board with an independent chair.
The Ottomans, who governed from the Balkans to Morocco, were being left behind.
FORBES: When Sovereign Default Is The Most Attractive Option
The state is currently governed by the right wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The poorest countries, including the basket-cases of sub-Saharan Africa, are the most deserving by the test of need, but tend to be the worst governed.
Commissioned in 1973 but shelved for several decades, the Four Freedoms Park is the first memorial in the city to FDR, who governed the state from 1929 to 1933, and the only work in the city by Kahn.
WSJ: Louis Kahn | Four Freedoms Park | Louis Kahn's Four Decades to Freedom | By Julie V. Iovine
应用推荐