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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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