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As part of the Magna Carta, the ming agreed not to raise revenue without the consent of the governed. That is another way of saying

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that the rights of the governed have an appeal where the one governing cannot impose a law without the consent of those being ruled.

It helped to prevent tyrants from acting like tyrants.

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