In an old formula, "domination" gives way to "hegemony" — brute force gives way to the deeper power of consent.
It is this organisation that is the key to the prince's power of consent and ultimately veto.
What the Russians have and what America wants them to exercise is the power to consent to modifications, or even the abandonment, of the ABM treaty.
Grimes and the Governor (the one-eyed dictator played by David Morrissey who leads a rival group of human survivors) both rule through brutal dictatorial power, manufacturing consent by force of will and arms.
But the disclosure of Judge Bork's cultural consumption so alarmed Congress that it quickly passed a law giving individuals the power to consent to have their records shared.
"The gravitational field on Planet College is shifting," Grigoriadis observes in her new book "Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus," which expands on this previous reporting to look at Syracuse and Wesleyan and other four-year residential schools.
The government is facing growing pressure to reveal how the Prince of Wales has used his power of consent over draft legislation after it emerged ministers asked him to approve planning and construction laws because they might directly affect the private £700m property empire that provides his annual income.
I'm telling you this now because I hate the way this possibility of experience for boys and girls and everyone in between gets drowned out in moralistic crap about power and consent, all of which is necessary but eclipses the real divine electric dirtiness that is possible between excited young bodies who have accepted that they have desire and somehow manage to find each other.
But, as we saw in §1, modern contract theories are concerned with appeals to our reason, not our self-binding power of consent.
A person's domain—"the physical, emotional, psychological, and intellectual space it lives in" (338)—defines the range of matters over which the person has rightful power of consent.
