consent

Examples of consent in the following topics:

• The Third Amendment

  • 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.

• Advice and Consent

  • 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

• Popular Consent, Majority Rule, and Popular Sovereignty

  • 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

• Voluntary, Involuntary, and Trust Associations

  • 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.

• Introduction to Evaluating and Justifying Government

  • 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.

• The Fourth Amendment and Search and Seizure

  • 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.

• The Senate

  • These include the power to consent to treaties as a precondition to their ratification.
  • The Constitution stipulates that no constitutional amendment may be created to deprive a state of its equal suffrage in the Senate without that state's consent.
  • The Senate commonly waives some of its stricter rules by unanimous consent.
  • Party leaders typically negotiate unanimous consent agreements beforehand.
  • A "hold" is placed when the leader's office is notified that a senator intends to object to a request for unanimous consent from the Senate to consider or pass a measure.

• Constitutional Limits

  • For example, "The president may make treaties, with the advice and consent of the Senate, provided two-thirds of the senators who are present agree"; "With the advice and consent of the Senate, the President may appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States whose appointments are not otherwise described in the Constitution. "
  • It includes sections such as "No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken" and "No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State. "
  • More importantly, Section 2 grants and limits the president's appointment powers: "The president may make treaties, with the advice and consent of the Senate, provided two-thirds of the senators who are present agree;" "With the advice and consent of the Senate, the President may appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States whose appointments are not otherwise described in the Constitution;" and "Congress may give the power to appoint lower officers to the President alone, to the courts, or to the heads of departments. " In addition, the Twenty-fifth Amendment limits the presidency to two terms .

• Senate Confirmation

  • Under the United States Constitution and law of the United States, certain federal positions appointed by the president of the United States require confirmation (advice and consent) of the United States Senate.
  • Under the Constitution, the Senate have advice and consent on any nominations made by the President to the Supreme Court of the United States.

• The President

  • Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution grants power to the president to make treaties with the "advice and consent" of two-thirds of the Senate.
  • This clause empowers the President to appoint certain public officials with the "advice and consent" of the Senate.
  • This clause also allows lower-level officials to be appointed without the advice and consent process.
  • Both the Secretary of State and ambassadors are appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate .