"No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated beforehand and applied legally."
- Marquis de LafayetteThe value of consent and transparency is widely held in the fields of politics and governance. Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, better known as the Marquis de Lafayette, articulated this concept quite well. Lafayette, who was born into a family of French aristocracy in the late 1700s, …