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Joel Feinberg, Harm to Self (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 178.
See Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. Edwin Curley (Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company, 1994), ch. 20 and “Review, and Conclusion” ; see also John Locke, The Second Treatise of Civil Government, ed. C. B. Macpherson (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1980), s.119; and Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, in The Basic Political Writings, ed. Donald A. Cress (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1987), bk. 4, ch. 2.
See Harry Beran, The Consent Theory of Political Obligation (London: Croom Helm, 1987), p. 109.
David Hume, “Of the Original Contract,” in Essays. Moral, Political, and Literary, ed. Eugene F. Miller (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1987), p. 475.
A. John Simmons, Moral Principles and Political Obligations (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981), p. 99; see also Anthony D. Woozley, Law and Obedience (Chapel Hill, N.C.: U. North Carolina Press, 1979), pp. 106–108.
Ronald Dworkin, Law’s Empire (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986), p. 193.
See Beran, op. cit., pp. 103–107; Joseph Tussman, Obligation and the Body Politic (New York: Oxford University Press, 1960), p. 38; see also Margaret Gilbert, “Agreements, Coercion, and Obligation,” Ethics 103 (1993), and Margaret Gilbert “Reconsidering the ‘Actual Contract’ Theory of Political Obligation,” Ethics 109 (1999).
Beran, op. cit., pp. 103–107.
Bernard Boxill, “On Some Criticisms of Consent Theory,” Journal of Social Philosophy 24 (1993), p. 89.
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. David F. Norton and Mary J. Norton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), bk. III, pt. II, s. V.
Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 89.
See A. John Simmons, On the Edge of Anarchy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993); see also Jeffrey G. Murphy, “Consent, Coercion, and Hard Choices,” Virginia Law Review 67 (1981).
Simmons, On the Edge of Anarchy, p. 239.
George Klosko, Political Obligation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 129.
See Raz, op. cit., pp. 94–95.
John G. Bennet, “A Note on Locke’s Theory of Tacit Consent,” The Philosophical Review 88 (1979): 224–234, p. 227–229. See also Lea Brilmayer, “Consent, Contract, and Territory,” Minnesota Law Review 74 (1989).
Hume, op. cit., “Of the Original Contract,” p. 475.
Simmons, On the Edge of Anarchy, p. 241.
John Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), p. 222.
Ibid.
See Allen Buchanan, Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 244–245.
Ibid.
I would like to thank Katherine Erbeznik, David Gordon, Fred Miller, and audiences at Michigan State University and Loyola University Chicago for their comments and suggestions. I would also like to thank an anonymous referee and Thomas Magnell, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, for their comments and help.
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Maloberti, N. The Fallacy of Consent. J Value Inquiry 44, 469–476 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-010-9248-7
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