Doubtless we may pass gradually from the purely reflex, through the consensual, to the voluntary.
"Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I"
Herbert Spencer
In the case of societies resting upon a consensual basis, Courts of Justice are bound when due complaint is made that a member of the society has been injured as to his rights in any matter of a mixed spiritual and temporal character, to inquire into the laws or rules of the Society.
"The New Irish Constitution"
J. H. Morgan