2. Mutual consent - John Rawls argues that obligation is not due to the officials or institutions that make the laws, but the people who's consent make it possible for a government to benefit society.
In other words, without our consent, laws and institutions couldn't be upheld at all.
Plato and Locke argued that residence in a country for any period of time constitutes impicit consent to the laws of the land. Basically if you don't like it, you can leave. If one consents to the law then they are therefore obliged to obey it.
However this ignores economic conditions, birthplace etc.
Furthermore, the utterance of "I consent" will not necessarily be genuine.
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