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===Tacit consent=== The theory of a tacit social contract holds that by remaining in the territory controlled by some society, which usually has a government, people give consent to join that society and be governed by its government if any. This consent is what gives legitimacy to such a government. Other writers have argued that consent to join the society is not necessarily consent to its government. For that, the government must be set up according to a constitution of government that is consistent with the superior unwritten constitutions of nature and society.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://constitution.org/oab/am_rep.htm |author=O. A. Brownson |title=''The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny'' |year=1866 |access-date=2011-02-13 |archive-date=2011-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004204024/http://constitution.org/oab/am_rep.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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