John Washington III Asks Who Gave Government the Right to Speak for Him and His Family Without Consent

John Washington III, a 2028 presidential candidate, is asking who gave the government the right to speak for him and his family without his consent. "Who gave you the right to speak for me and my family without my consent?" he wrote. "I have some serious questions for the United States Government and every state government in America."

John Washington III grounded the question in the Declaration of Independence, writing that 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 that an agreement a group makes for itself speaks for that group, not for everyone else, and that being born under a government does not mean he personally agreed to every decision it makes. He wrote that he and his children have constitutional rights. "Government must not confuse legal authority with unlimited control," he wrote.

John Washington III closed by demanding that anyone claiming to speak for him show where the agreement is. "If you claim to speak for me, show me where I agreed, show me how you're representing us, and answer to the people whose lives you affect," he wrote. "That's the ground I'm standing on."