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Full Idea
The legislative power must not raise taxes on the property of the people without the consent of the people given by themselves or their deputies.
Gist of Idea
The consent of the people is essential for any tax
Source
John Locke (Second Treatise of Government [1690], 142)
Book Ref
Locke,John: 'Two Treatises of Government' [Everyman 1988], p.189
A Reaction
He will be thinking of the resistance to Ship Money in the 1630s, which was a step towards civil war. The people of Boston, Ma, may have read this sentence 80 years later!
| 19899 | The consent of the people is essential for any tax [Locke] |
| 19836 | The amount of taxation doesn't matter, if it quickly circulates back to the citizens [Rousseau] |
| 19860 | Everyone must contribute to the state's power and administration, in just proportion [Mirabeau/committee] |
| 18639 | If we assess what people would buy in an imaginary insurance market, our taxes could copy it [Dworkin, by Kymlicka] |
| 20684 | Financing is increasingly through credit rather than taxes; people prefer investing to taxation [Harari] |