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...time, American settlers developed a new sense of consent to government that involved not only the right to consent to acts of government but also to refuse to consent. From the exercise of this new theory of consent emerged a new system of rights based not on "order and status," but on agreement...
...Government they understood as a necessity, but as a product of human intentions.... When Americans thought of rights or the consent of the governed, therefore, they had in mind the actualities of their own experience," the Handlins write...
...profit and started another. Within ten years he was building apartments and office towers, and now owns Canadian real estate worth $1 billion. Allied rejected his first offer of $58 a share last August, when the stock was trading at 48. But Campeau eventually won Allied's consent with an offer of $69 a share, helped by a $1.8 billion loan from First Boston. Said Allied Chairman Thomas Macioce last week: "We got our shareholders the best price possible...
...fantasy, there is no possibility of success in arms control. All the President is doing with his fixation on Star Wars is to make arms control more difficult to achieve. He is escalating the arms race, as the Soviets build more weapons to block SDI. The Soviets will not consent to limitations on their strategic missiles without receiving something in return. I'm appalled that the Administration did not understand what was at stake. It is sheer nonsense for the President to be talking about Star Wars. In the talks, he should be concentrating on ICBMs, which are an absolute...
...legislator can be arrested for comments made in the Assembly without the consent of that body. But the government, backed by ruling-party legislators, contended that Yoo's distribution of the pro-Communist speech prior to its delivery on the floor was a violation of the National Security Law. If convicted, Yoo faces up to seven years in prison...