By choosing to live in a country you are giving consent for that country to make laws that apply to you and for you to abide by those laws. Nothing is being imposed.
You bring up a good point, which is that my statement doesn't apply too well to dictatorships. When I made it, I was looking at things from the point of view of a democracy such as the United States. Obviously the equation is changed dramatically by people not having the power to remove their leaders from office.Even in democracies, your idea has a problem - what if one cannot afford to leave their country of origin, or are otherwise unable to go elsewhere? There's also the issue that a democracy that one would be willing to truly consent to be governed by does not exist. Since not everyone has the option to go somewhere that they would be totally willing to consent to everything imposed on them then your idea might hold weight, but that is not the case.
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