
“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”
“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”
Apr 2014. As quoted/attributed in : Another SP leader’s rape remark sparks outrage https://web.archive.org/web/20140618193004/http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/another-sp-leaders-rape-remark-sparks-outrage/article5902266.ece
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 143.
2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Rights of the Colonists (1772)
319 U.S. 641
Judicial opinions, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
Context: We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority.
The Drapier's Letters, letter iv (13 October, 1724)