John Washington III Asks Who Gave Government the Right to Speak for Him and His Family Without Consent
In a TWA Community post, John Washington III argued that governments draw their just powers from the consent of the governed - and asked when he and his family ever gave theirs.
John Washington III, a 2028 presidential candidate, is questioning whether government speaks for him and his family without their consent. In his post, John Washington III wrote that he has serious questions for the United States government and every state government in America, starting from the Declaration of Independence: governments get their just powers from the consent of the governed. "So when did I give my consent?" he wrote. "When did my family give theirs? Who gave a small group of people the authority to speak for every American?"
John Washington III argued the point by analogy: if a group makes rules for themselves, he wrote, that agreement speaks for that group, not for everyone else - comparing it to mafia families, which have their own codes but cannot walk into another home and declare that everyone there belongs to them. Being born under a government, he wrote, does not mean he personally agreed to every decision it makes, and he and his children hold constitutional rights.
"Government must not confuse legal authority with unlimited control," John Washington III wrote. If officials claim to speak for him, he wrote, they should show him where he agreed, show him how they are representing his family, and answer to the people whose lives their decisions affect. "That's the ground I'm standing on," he wrote.
