Assuming Quote by Lysander Spooner

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually…

— Lysander Spooner

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men…

— Leland Stanford

“The Constitution says: "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide…

— Lysander Spooner

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one to which…

— Lysander Spooner

We were given a system of government that places the people at the center of all decision-making and relies on the consent of the…

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is meaningless... The…

— Edward Snowden

I'm not an expert on the Constitution but I know the Constitution exists for a reason. It exists to protect human beings, to protect…

— Shakira

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.

— John Adams

“Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this…

— Thomas Paine

Almost all the worlds' constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which…

— Ronald Reagan

Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory…

— John Marshall