Word: consent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special consent of the English department, themes from English A students as well as other Freshmen entrees will be acceptable. The final awards will be presented to the winners of the contest at a special luncheon in January...
Subsequent lectures in the series of six, to be given this week and next, will be: Wednesday, "The Consent of the Governed"; Friday, "Democracy and Common Counsel"; December 9, "Democracy and Administrative Management"; December 11, "Elements in a Democratic Program, II"; and December 13, "Elements in a Democratic Program...
...symptom that capitalist democracy can no longer solve its own economic and social problems; 2) a heaven-sent chance to ram through, under the guise of wartime necessity, radical social changes that citizens would never stand for in peacetime. Laski calls his program "revolution by consent." He proposes that the owners of property consent to what they cannot prevent...
More dangerous still, "it yields to the workers far less than they wish to take." But "the simple answer is that, like all processes of consent, it is a compromise." In Britain itself, war has already forced much of the revolution Laski diagrams...
...Churchill-Bevan compromise is being tested in a furnace. When the test is over, privilege may wish to know at what point the masses will consent to call the revolution off. That point Laski does not indicate. He is only sure that if the consenting parties are not nice to each other, the fascists will get them both...