Examples of consent in the following topics:
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- The Third Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits, in peacetime or wartime, the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent.
- No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
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- Advice and consent is a power of the Senate to be consulted on and approve treaties signed by the president.
- Requiring the president to gain the advice and consent of the Senate achieved both goals without hindering the business of government.
- Under the Constitution, the Senate have advice and consent on any nominations made by the President to the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Senators also have the power of "advice and consent" over other authorities in the federal or state governments.
- Describe the origins and development of the Senate's "advise and consent" powers
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- Definitions of rape and consent have evolved over time.
- Girls as young as six could be married without their consent.
- Most states set of the age of consent at 18 and maintain that younger children are incapable of freely giving their consent.
- In modern legal understanding, consent may be explicit or implied by context, but the absence of objection never itself constitutes consent, and consent can be withdrawn at any time.
- Consent cannot be forced and it cannot be given by certain categories of people considered incapable of consent (e.g., minors and the cognitively disabled).
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- Popular consent, majority rule, and popular sovereignty are related concepts that form the basis of democratic government.
- Popular consent (or the consent of the governed), majority rule, and popular sovereignty are related concepts that form the basis of democratic government.
- The central tenet is that legitimacy of rule or of law is based on the consent of the governed.
- This idea—often linked with the notion of the consent of the governed—was not invented by the American revolutionaries.
- Explain the significance of popular sovereignty and the consent of the governed for liberal democracy
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- Dictatorships govern without consent of the people and in totalitarian dictatorships the power to govern extends to all aspects of life.
- Under the Nazi regime, Hitler was a dictator who governed without the consent of the people and he led a totalitarian government that regulated all aspects of daily life and exerted immense control over its subjects.
- Dictatorship is a form of government in which the ruler has the power to govern without consent of those being governed.
- In this sense, dictatorship (government without people's consent) exists in contrast with democracy (government whose power comes from people) and totalitarianism (where government controls every aspect of people's lives) exists in contrast with pluralism (where government allows multiple lifestyles and opinions) .
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- The first person's action either takes place with the consent of the person to be affected, or it is unilateral, without the affected person's consent.
- Children, especially when very young, are in no position to give or to withhold consent to associate with their parents.
- Voluntary associations, a third type, are created by the exchange or transfer of inducements or expected inducements by mutual consent.
- The fourth combination of types—sanctions by mutual consent—can exist only when sanctions are falsely expected to be inducements by the party who consents to them.
- Naturally, no one who sees it for what it is would consent to such an action. ) Instead of recognizing a fourth type of association,"mistakes", we will regard these as a special type of voluntary associations.
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- Valid consent means a participant is aware of all relevant context surrounding the research they are participating in, including both risks and benefits.
- Failure to ensure informed consent is likely to result in the harm of potential participants and others who may be affected indirectly.
- Two approaches have been suggested to minimize such difficulties: pre-consent (including authorized deception and generic pre-consent) and minimized deception.
- Pre-consent involves informing potential participants that a given research study involves an element of deception without revealing its exact nature.
- This approach respects the autonomy of individuals because subjects consent to the deception.
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- Sexual violence is any sexual act or sexual advance directed at one individual without their consent.
- Sexual violence is any sexual act or sexual advance directed at one individual without their consent.
- Rape is a form of sexual assault involving one or more persons who force sexual penetration with another individual without that individual's consent.
- An act is deemed sexually violent if the individual to whom the attention is directed does not consent to the sexual activity, if they are members of a class of persons who cannot consent (the severely cognitively impaired, individuals who are inebriated, minors, etc.), or if consent is due to coercion or duress.
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- However, contract theorists have always foundered on the fact that not everybody subject to a government consents, or has consented, to be governed by it.
- A contract, like any other voluntary association, requires mutual consent of all the parties, not just a majority of them.
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- For instance, the owner of the property in question may consent to the search.
- The consent must be voluntary, but there is no clear method of determining this; rather, a court will consider the "totality of the circumstances" in assessing whether consent was voluntary.
- There are also some circumstances in which a third party who has equal control, or common authority, over the property may consent to a search.