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“Consent of the governed” refers to the idea that a government’s legitimacy and moral right to use state power is justified and lawful only when consented, or agreed to, by the people over which that political power is exercised. Consent is fundamental to social contract accounts of political legitimacy, arising as early as Plato's Crito but most prominently in the 17th-century writings of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Sign the Petition: WE DO NOT CONSENT! Locke believed tha

No US citizen should be forced to fund a government that is antithetical to their moral and ethical beliefs.

Image of the CECOT prison in El Salvador, posted to X by Salvadoran dictator Nayib Bukele We are now over a month into a slow-motion Constitutional Crisis, after Kilmar Abrego Garcia  and more than 275 other men were illegally renditioned to CECOT, a brutal El Salvadoran prison camp funded by the United States. Justifying their actions through a hodge-podge of unproven allegations and the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, the government turned these men over to the care of

Back in 2016, Timothy Snyder, an American Historian, wrote " On Tyranny : Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century" . According to the...

In the 60-plus days (!) since the beginning of the second Trump term, it often feels like the American people and our institutions have...