Word: consent
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Kreidler believes his ancestors, if alive today, would "probably be conservative Republicans without being mossbacks. In the beginning, they didn't favor independence, but they did favor firm resistance to encroachments-to being taxed without consent." He also conjectures that his ancestors would not want to hold political office today because it is a full-time occupation. "The problem with Congress is that it's run by professional politicians who are out of touch with the country. They are not like the citizen legislators the country had in the beginning...
...from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form...
...phrase later changed]; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." To secure these rights, Jefferson went on, men establish governments winch derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed." And when any government becomes destructive of the safety and happiness of the people, "it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government...
ships of war] without the consent of our legislatures...
...without our consent; for depriving us in many cases of the benefits...