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Nov 9, 2005 · The literature on Locke’s theory of consent tends to focus on how Locke does or does not successfully answer the following objection: few people have actually consented to their governments so no, or almost no, governments are actually legitimate.
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In political philosophy, the phrase consent of the governed refers to the idea that a government's legitimacy and moral right to use state power is justified and lawful only when consented to by the people or society over which that political power is exercised.
Locke presents consent as a deliberate act that constitutes an undertaking of obligation, and he requires political consent because (a) every person is a free, equal, and sovereign individual and (b) a free, equal, and sovereign individual cannot be subject to non-natural obligations.
I. CONSENT IN THE POLITICAL THEORY OF JOHN LOCKE. BY JOHN DUNN. King's College, Cambridge. IT is widely agreed that the notion of consent plays a central role in the political theory which Locke sets out in the Two Treatises of Government.
The consent of the governed was championed in modern political thought by the British philosopher John Locke (1632–1704), whose ideas heavily influenced the framers of the U.S. Constitution.
Locke proposed a radical conception of political philosophy deduced from the principle of self-ownership and the corollary right to own property, which in turn is based on his famous claim that a man earns ownership over a resource when he mixes his labour with it.
