<Dl> <Dd> The political world over, absolute governments which do not even do lip - service to the fiction of consent are more common than free governments, and their subjects rarely question their right except when tyranny becomes too oppressive . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> The political world over, absolute governments which do not even do lip - service to the fiction of consent are more common than free governments, and their subjects rarely question their right except when tyranny becomes too oppressive . </Dd> <P> Sabine revived the concept from its status as a political myth after Hume, by referring to Thomas Hill Green . Green wrote that government required "will not force" for administration . As put by Sabine, </P> <Dl> <Dd> Even the most powerful and the most despotic government cannot hold a society together by sheer force; to that extent there was a limited truth to the old belief that governments are produced by consent . </Dd> </Dl>

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