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The Myth of the 'Consent of the Governed'

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Christopher Cook
Dec 11, 2023
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Students of liberty know that the theoretical construct of the ‘implicit social contract’ was one of the fundamental philosophical building bricks underlying not only the American system, but the whole of the modern Western project.

Those who continue to carry the philosophical calculus out to its logical conclusions know that this kind of social contract

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