Talk:Consent of the governed

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This phrase is often attributed to John Locke, but the idea was around much earlier. Consent of the governed appears in the Scottish Declaration of Arbroath (1320) which states that lord Robert, because of "Divine Providence" along with "the due consent and assent of us all, have made him our prince and king."

[edit] US

The article is quite US-centric. I don't see anything wrong with that as soon as the subject _is_ in itself such, but in which case it'd be better from the very start to say "in US" or similar. In another case, the article would need expanding.

In the See Also section, there is an editorial line that should be deleted