Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Consent of the governed
Consent of the governed
The idea that a just government must be based on the consent of the people who live under its jurisdiction. Government must be an expression of the popular will. This concept is found in the writings of theorists from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, especially John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and John Stuart Mill. Locke's work influenced the Founding Fathers, and the Declaration of Independence states that "governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it."
- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary:
- Industry/Domain: Politics
- Category: Political Science
- Company:
- Product:
- Acronym-Abbreviation:
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Hypoxia symptom
Hypoxia is a medical condition of oxygen deprivation or altitude sickness. It can adversely affect human judgement and movement at high altitudes with ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
Browers Terms By Category
- Medicine(68317)
- Cancer treatment(5553)
- Diseases(4078)
- Genetic disorders(1982)
- Managed care(1521)
- Optometry(1202)
Health care(89875) Terms
- Wireless networking(199)
- Modems(93)
- Firewall & VPN(91)
- Networking storage(39)
- Routers(3)
- Network switches(2)
Network hardware(428) Terms
- Dating(35)
- Romantic love(13)
- Platonic love(2)
- Family love(1)
Love(51) Terms
- Aeronautics(5992)
- Air traffic control(1257)
- Airport(1242)
- Aircraft(949)
- Aircraft maintenance(888)
- Powerplant(616)