Consent
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The Liberal-Conservative coalition inherits, by common consent, the worst economic legacy since the war, with a huge hole in the public finances that is starting to look ever deeper as new ministers get a chance to inspect things for themselves.
Such radical changes would require the
consent
of all eurozone countries.
With the
consent
of both the US and Iraq's new leadership, EU governments should also offer to organize an international conference uniting all those with a stake in Iraqi stability, including Iraq's neighbors, to work out a strategy and commit resources in order to save Iraq from slipping into protracted turmoil.
Cameron does not personally want Britain to leave the EU, but he knows that some form of democratic
consent
is needed for future British governments to settle the matter.
The first is that democracies cannot go to war without at least the tacit
consent
of their peoples.
When they graciously
consent
to appear, they are treated with deference.
For 70 years, the PRI had a complete lock on Mexican politics; now three parties do, and no one else can enter the political arena or gain access to the enormous public subsidies – more than $500 million last year – handed out to these parties without their
consent.
The current talks aim to replace the expired 1997 PCA, which remains in force by mutual
consent
pending a new accord.
After all, genuine leadership cannot come from raw power, but only from other states’
consent
or tacit acceptance.
Without legitimacy, there can be no stability in any political system, and without elections – that is, an explicit expression of popular
consent
to the holders of power – there can be no legitimacy.
The first principle of democracy is that government must be based on popular consent, even if the government is made up of parties for which many people did not vote.
It is clear from the worldwide rage against elected governments that this
consent
is becoming dangerously threadbare.
Such times are dangerous for democracy, because they endanger popular
consent
to democratic governments.
Macron’s idea is to move beyond idle optimism by gaining German
consent
to turn the eurozone into a state-like entity – a federation-lite.
If such a consensus can be forged, however, it will provide a foundation for further collaboration in building a pan-Asian order based on consent, not military might.
In this sense, “unextractable carbon” can form part of a broader political agenda linking issues like governance, community consent, and transparency to local environmental issues, climate change, and a sustainable future.
But, to be fair, rationing requires the knowledge and general
consent
of all who are subject to it.
A woman needs
consent
from a partner to have one.
To achieve it, democracies tend to impose limits on public debt and require legislative
consent
in order to authorize government debt and other contracts.
As an initial step, the Indian government has developed an electronic
consent
framework that enables citizens to understand and authorize specific uses of their data.
But, in addition to consent, we also need new data-handling institutions that do not have interests competing with those of the user.
The Reserve Bank of India’s well-designed digital account aggregator system, for example, enables potential lenders to review borrowers’ financial assets digitally, on the basis of borrowers’ explicit
consent
to access only specific data, for a specific purpose, for a specified period of time.
Critics argue that international organizations should not exercise such “independence,” on the grounds that these bodies derive all their legitimacy from governance and
consent
by member states.
It would have established that the vote in favor of Brexit and the popular acceptance of its consequences were not matters of informed
consent.
When doctors at a second hospital finally operated on her, they removed her ovaries without her prior
consent.
Likewise, the WHO asserts that procedures like C-sections should be performed only when they are medically necessary or have the woman’s
consent.
Yet in 11 countries, women reported that they didn’t
consent
to C-sections, inductions, and episiotomies (the cutting of a woman’s vagina) that were performed on them, or said that they did not believe these procedures were medically necessary.
In Latin America, several countries – including Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela – have passed laws against the performance of medical procedures, such as C-sections, without informed
consent.
Significantly, it requires unanimous
consent
from the EU’s 27 member states – always a nail biter in today’s charged and polarized political environment.
Policymakers will also have to address the process by which cellphone users
consent
to releasing their data.
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