PAPM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Implied Consent

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Public Affairs and Policy Management
• Course: PAPM 1000
• Professor: Marc Hanvelt

Document Summary

Political power is the right to be obeyed. State of nature is the state in which there are no overarching political power. One thing person owns is their labour. Mixing of labour ensures acquisition of property, given the person follows locke"s rules. The invention of money agrees that value can be placed on something. This effectively removes the rule of spoilage because money can be hoarded. A: no, human made common agreement of value. Political power amounts to the joining together to form a majority. Collective agrees to less power and implements and overarching structure (government) Concentration to power exists after state of nature, that didn"t exist before (prone to abuse of power) Expressed consent is needed in order for political society to exist. Consent to being governed by the majority. People can together and form a commonwealth. No historical examples of societies formed by the consent of the governed. Impossible to achieve consent since people were both under government.