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Tacit consent attributes obligations to a person’s conduct rather than an express promise. Locke’s account asks what enjoying protection can authorize, and for how long.
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Guided course · Module 9 · Lesson 52
Why should anyone obey a government?
Hobbes and Locke disagree about the grounds and limits of political authority. A shared case tests their accounts of protection, consent, rights and resistance.