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    Persons in modern nation-states do not have special polit... — Carmelics
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    Persons in modern nation-states do not have special political obligations grounded in tacit consent.

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    • 1.Locke's own account requires that tacit consent be genuinely voluntary, meaning exit from the territory must be a realistic and non-burdensome option.
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    • 2.Modern states impose citizenship by birth, restrict emigration through passport controls and wealth transfers, and make statelessness a condition of severe rightlessness.
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    • 3.An act performed under conditions where the alternative is severe harm or loss of fundamental status cannot constitute voluntary consent in any morally meaningful sense.
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    • 1.Hume's objection in 'Of the Original Contract' demonstrates that continued residence signals necessity and habituation, not deliberate political commitment.
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    • 2.Where a person has no practical knowledge of alternative political memberships and no moment of reflective choice, continued presence expresses no propositional attitude toward political authority.
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    • 3.Consent requires an intentional mental state directed at the object of consent, and unreflective habitual residence lacks the requisite intentionality to ground binding obligations.
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    • 1.Tacit consent is only valid when the conditions for consent-giving are met (awareness of the consent situation, clarity about what constitutes consent, clarity about timing, and non-extraordinary cost of consenting).
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    • 2.The political context of the modern nation-state fails to meet any of these conditions for valid tacit consent.
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    • 3.If one accepts voluntarism and the view that all voluntarily assumed obligations are contractual in nature, then special political obligations require valid voluntary consent.
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    Locke famously appeals to the notion of tacit consent in order to accommodate special political obligations given his voluntarist commitment: “every man, that hath any possessions, or enjoyment, of any part of the dominions of any government, doth thereby give his tacit consent, and is as far forth obliged to obedience to the laws of that government, during such enjoyment, as any one under it” (64). A person gives tacit or implicit, as opposed to express or explicit, consent, when her consent is
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