# Consent of the governed

- Id: `consent_of_the_governed`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/consent-of-the-governed/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `47ed66e511757e900ba58685a25ebe5344b1d06ea1fa9367f3e84f638fee25ae`

## Summary

Consent explains legitimate political authority as the commitment of free persons, while requiring distinctions among express consent, tacit consent, and mere submission.

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:locke.second_treatise:C9",
    "passage:locke.second_treatise:C8",
    "passage:locke.second_treatise:C7"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 19,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "locke.second_treatise",
        "title": "Second Treatise of Government",
        "author": "John Locke",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/john-locke/second-treatise/"
    }
]
```