17% Say U.S. Government Has Consent of the Governed

Quoting Rasmussen Reports
(from 8/7/11):

“Fewer voters than ever feel the federal government has the consent of the governed.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 17% of Likely U.S. Voters think the federal government today has the consent of the governed.”

“They say - America, love it or leave it
Well, I loved it and it left me”:


As a reminder,
our Declaration of Independence reads:

“all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”