Yet Robert Heinlein, he who is like unto a God, once noted that if 'everyone' believes something, it almost certainly isn't true.
Exception proves the rule, and all that.
As with all common wisdom, this is uncommonly unwise. He never took any positive action indicating acceptance of the 'social contract'. If government derives its 'just powers' from the consent of the governed, then the government can have no just power over him. But the rest of us did not. And no amount of 'campaign finance reform' or 'term limits' or 'free TV time' is going to change that, because democracy is fundementally flawed.