On the Limits of Consent
If agreement is what makes an obligation binding, what happens at the edges — where consent is assumed, inherited, or manufactured?
If agreement is what makes an obligation binding, what happens at the edges — where consent is assumed, inherited, or manufactured?
Dividing power between levels of government was a solution to a specific problem. It is worth asking whether that problem is still the one we have.
A regime can be perfectly orderly and still fail every test the phrase was meant to impose.