If the taxation is by the consent of the governed, it's not coerced. It's legitimate.

如果税收是由统治者一致决定的话，那就不是强制，就是合法的。

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It is the product, the creation of the people or of what we might call, in Jeffersonian language, it is the product of the consent of the governed.

我们可以说它是人民权力的产物,但若用杰斐逊的话讲，我们也可以说它是，统治者们互相默许下的产物。

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So taxation by consent of the governed is not coercive.

经统治者同意的税收就不是强制的。

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Relations of authority exist only by, so to speak, the consent or the will of the governed.

权威的关系只在，允诺和意愿被管理的人那里存在。

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We know that the way we enter into society is by consent, by agreement to leave the state of nature and to be governed by the majority and by a system of laws, human laws.

众所周知，只有经过同意，才能进入社会,才能脱离自然状态，并被大多数人,被人类法律体系所管辖。

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