Locke on consent, membership and emigration
A reconsideration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6260504 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jk Numao (0000-0002-5436-0058, Keio University), J K Numao (Keio University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 211-229 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-8851 • E-ISSN: 1741-2730 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1474885119852709 |
| OpenAlex | W2947953343 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article revisits long-standing questions about consent, membership and emigration in Locke’s thought. Commentators such as A John Simmons have argued that Locke opens political membership to both express consenters and some kind of tacit consenters, and not just to the former, as some have suggested. Simmons’s reading seems to render Locke more sensible in that it does not exclude large numbers of people from membership or burden the few members with all the civic duties, and also in that it allows at least tacit-consenting members the right to relocate, while this right is denied to express-consenting members. Against this reading, the article shows, by resolving seemingly conflicting claims in the text, that people become members only by express consent. It also responds to the criticism that the express-consent-only reading would limit membership to a few and so would render Locke’s account implausible from a practical point of view. The article then addresses the purported restriction Locke imposes on express consenters’ right to emigrate, arguing that the restriction concerns the change of membership and not the right to relocate
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History of Political Thought
England and Religious Plurality
Locking the Borders
The Liberal Politics of John Locke
Islam in Britain, 1689–1750
Tacit Concept of Consent in Locke's Two Treatises of Government
The origins of totalitarianism
II. Locke on Express and Tacit Consent
Allegiance and Jurisdiction in Locke's Doctrine of Tacit Consent
Express Consent and Full Membership in Locke
A Lockean Theory of Territory
Locke on Territorial Rights
Thomas Hobbes and John Locke on a Liberal Right of Secession
John Locke on Native Right, Colonial Possession, and the Concept ofVacuum domicilium
Citizenship and the Right to Leave
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |