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    The requirement that a person consent to the regulation o... — Carmelics
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    The requirement that a person consent to the regulation or taxation of property is satisfied when a majority of representatives of property holders consent.

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    • 1.A person must consent to the regulation or taxation of his property by the state.
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    • 2.Representative institutions can act on behalf of property holders.
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    • 3.Majority consent among representatives of property holders constitutes sufficient consent for property regulation and taxation.
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    • 1.Consent requires the actual agreement of the individual whose rights are affected, not a structural proxy relationship.
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    • 2.Locke himself distinguished between tacit consent to governance and the inalienable right to direct control over one's property acquisitions.
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    • 3.Representative majority consent substitutes a procedural fiction for the substantive individual consent that grounds property rights in the first place.
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    • 1.Nozick's entitlement theory holds that redistributive taxation of legitimately acquired property violates individual rights regardless of majority will.
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    • 2.No voting mechanism, representative or otherwise, can transfer the moral standing required to override an individual's self-ownership and its extensions.
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    Locke thinks that a people, which is formed by individuals who consent to be members, could choose a monarchy by means of majority rule and so this argument by itself does not give us an argument for democracy. But Locke refers back to this argument when he defends the requirement of representative institutions for deciding when property may be regulated and taxes levied. He argues that a person must consent to the regulation or taxation of his property by the state. But he says that this requir
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