refers to the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as inalienable. 1 Some rights, however, are alienable. Consent is a common means of alienating, or "waiving," 2 one's rights. In criminal procedure, for example, consent to search is a means of waiving Fourth Amendment rights. 3 In family law, consent to adoption is a means of waiving parental rights. 4 And in tort law, consent to bodily touching is a means of waiving rights against battery. 5 While consent is a means of waiving rights in many areas of law, these areas vary in their standards of consent. For example, the standards of consent governing jury-waiver clauses tend to be higher than those governing contracts generally. 6 This point is the basis for an argument that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) 7 is unconsitutional. The FAA requires courts to apply contract-law standards of consent to arbitration agreements, 8 but certain commentators argue that courts are instead constitutionally required to apply the higher standards of consent governing jury-waiver clauses. 9 This Article responds to thesecommentators and argues that the FAA's contract-law standards of consent are constitutional.