Philosophical concept
Consent of the governed
Consent explains legitimate political authority as the commitment of free persons, while requiring distinctions among express consent, tacit consent, and mere submission.
- Works
- 1
- Passages
- 19
- Thinkers
- 1
- Traditions
- 1
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Consent explains legitimate political authority as the commitment of free persons, while requiring distinctions among express consent, tacit consent, and mere submission.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 19 passages across 1 works, including Second Treatise of Government. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
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Works where the concept is identified
- Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn Locke · 19 passages