A consent-based obligation that applies automatically to all persons in a jurisdiction by virtue of non-exit cannot be grounded in the same voluntarist logic that validates paradigm cases of private contract.
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(as used in contract law and political philosophy)
An agreement between individual people (not involving the government) where both sides voluntarily choose to participate and know what they're agreeing to.
voluntarist logic(as used in ethics and political philosophy)
A way of thinking that says obligations are only fair and binding when people freely choose to accept them.