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    Challenges→A person's possession or enjoyment of any part of a government's dominions constitutes tacit consent to that government, obligating the person to obey its laws during such enjoyment.

    An action that does not specifically communicate political deference cannot be interpreted as consent without equivocating on what 'consent' means.

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    • 1.Consent requires affirmative communication of agreement to specific terms, not mere silence or passive acceptance.
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    • 2.Actions can express many attitudes (compliance, resignation, indifference); inferring consent requires disambiguating which.
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    • 3.Conflating tacit acceptance with genuine consent obscures power dynamics where people comply without actually agreeing.
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    • 1.Many legitimate consents are implicit: paying at a store implies agreement to purchase without explicit verbal consent.
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    • 2.Requiring explicit political speech for consent sets an unusually high evidentiary bar not applied to other consent contexts.
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    • 3.Actions themselves communicate political positions; refraining from resistance can legitimately signal acceptance of terms.
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