How should government get the authority or right to make laws telling people what they can and cannot do?

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6 August, 19:18

How should government get the authority or right to make laws telling people what they can and cannot do?

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Lorelei · Answer 1

People give implicit consent, also called tacit consent, by accepting the laws and services of the government and nation of their birth. Locke believed that since the people give the power to the government, they have the right to take it away if the government is not serving the purposes for which it was established.