On the 4th of July, Americans celebrated the Declaration of Independence which ushered in a new concept of governance set out in the opening lines of that document: “We hold these truths to be ...

That governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed “ is where our voting rights were born, and where our founding as a Constitutional Republic (not a democracy!) first emerges ...

One of the core principles of the Declaration of Independence has always been that all people have unalienable rights and that any authority to secure those rights has come from the people’s approval.

Presidents have been perverting “consent of the governed” for centuries. “Consent of the governed” was a signature line of the Declaration of Independence, and it has echoed in official declarations ...

Most voters don’t feel very well represented by Congress, and believe the federal government no longer has “the consent of the governed.” The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online ...

On the latest episode of Legal Spirits, I speak with legal scholar Steve Smith (University of San Diego) about a foundational principle of American law and politics: "the consent of the governed." ...

“The United States government faces growing difficulty in fulfilling its purpose because at least some of its powers are no longer derived from the consent of the governed.” This was the topic taken ...

[This year, my annual post celebrating the Fourth of July is drawn from a chapter of Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People, and from a short essay on the ...