| We tell ourselves that we live in the world's greatest democracy, one whose government derives its powers from the consent of the governed. |
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| A new social contract is urgently needed to base the power of those who govern on the consent of the governed. |
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| First, we remember the victory that ensures government only by consent of the governed. |
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| Especially in a close election because the foundation of our constitutional self-government is the consent of the governed. |
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| I have said a number of times that in order for our country to be governed well, we have to maintain the consent of the governed. |
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| Mr. Gordon Gibson: I think respect is the ultimate foundation for law-mutual respect, mutual consent of the governed. |
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| Along with subsidized food and fuel, governments provide cheap or even free water in order to ensure the consent of the governed. |
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| The United States aspires to be a nation in which the government rules by the consent of the governed people. |
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| At the end of the day, in a democracy, the government only governs with the consent of the governed. |
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| The United Nations is founded upon the principle of government through consent of the governed. |
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| We have inherited this tradition that lead to government by consent of the governed. |
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| The police cannot effectively enforce our laws unless they have the consent of the governed,declared Breitkreuz. |
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| In the long run, the leaders of families, as of nations, can only govern in the best interests of all if they have the consent of the governed. |
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| Democratic government requires the consent of the governed. |
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| Governments, he claims, are based on both this natural social instinct and on the express or implied consent of the governed. |
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| Under Article IV, each state is guaranteed a form of government that is grounded in republican principles, such as the consent of the governed. |
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| Democracies are based on the principle of rule with the consent of the governed, and the doctrine of informed consent represented an effort to extend this principle to medicine and the life sciences. |
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| If a government is to rule according to the consent of the governed, the effectiveness of that government is heavily influenced by how much the governed know about the issues that affect them. |
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| It will be a bad law, a blight on the legislative record of the government, a law that fails the three great tests of constitutionality, of effectiveness and of the democratic consent of the governed. |
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| Locke advanced the principle of consent of the governed in his Two Treatises of Government. |
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| To Locke, one of the consequences of the principle of equality was that all humans were created equally free and therefore governments needed the consent of the governed. |
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| The greatest challenge to the old order in Europe was the challenge to inherited political power and the democratic idea that government rests on the consent of the governed. |
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| Hume argued that consent of the governed was the ideal foundation on which a government should rest, but that it had not actually occurred this way in general. |
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| Namely, Hobbes wrote in The Elements of Law that Patrimonial kingdoms were not necessarily formed by the consent of the governed, while in Leviathan he argued that they were. |
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