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    Supports→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.

    Tacit consent to a government creates an obligation to obey the laws of that government during the period of such possession or enjoyment.

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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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