{"id":27692,"date":"2011-08-07T15:30:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T15:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/glenn_reynolds_in_2010-consent_of_the_governed_-_and_the_lack_thereof\/"},"modified":"2011-08-07T15:30:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T15:30:42","slug":"glenn_reynolds_in_2010-consent_of_the_governed_-_and_the_lack_thereof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27692","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Reynolds in 2010&#8211;Consent of the governed &#8211; and the lack thereof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;among the rulers, only 63 percent &#8212; triple the fraction of the general populace but still less than two-thirds of the political class &#8212; regard the federal government as legitimate by the standards of America&#8217;s founding document. The remainder, presumably, are comfortable being tyrants.<\/p>\n<p>These numbers should raise deep worries about the future of our republic. A nation whose government does not rest on the consent of the governed is a nation whose government holds sway only by inertia, or by force.<\/p>\n<p>It is a nation vulnerable to political shocks, usurpation, or perhaps even political collapse or civil war. It is a body politic suffering from a serious illness. Those who care about America should be very worried.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/node\/112581\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;among the rulers, only 63 percent &#8212; triple the fraction of the general populace but still less than two-thirds of the political class &#8212; regard the federal government as legitimate by the standards of America&#8217;s founding document. The remainder, presumably,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27692\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,149,133,617,616,151,129,618,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-history","category-house-of-representatives","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-senate","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}