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Government is needed because it is the institution through which the people are able to maintain order, provide public services, and enforce decisions that are binding on all members of society. Without a government, the basic rights of the people might not be protected. As the Declaration states, governments are instituted in order to protect the rights of all people, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Governments also protect the nation from foreign or domestic enemies. And the government protects the nation from attack from abroad or from within the nation's boundaries.
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What would be a real life example of a limited government?
what is a real life example of limited government
Why is government neccesary?
For stability in social life.
Who said without government life would be solitary poor nasty brutish and short?
The philosopher Thomas Hobbes said it, it came from the Leviathan (a book collecting most of his work)
What 3 unaliable rights listed in the declaration of independence?
The Declaration of Independence specifically names 3 "unalienable" rights - Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness... "These three rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Life meant not only the right not to continue breathing but the right to engage in the normal functions of life without government control. This encompasses marriage, family, work, education, etc.Liberty means the right to basically go where you want to go, say what you want to say, and do what you want to do (within reasonable limits) without government control or reprisal.Pursuit of happiness in this context means basically the accumulation of wealth and property, again within reasonable limits. You can farm or run a mill or work for a living without the government randomly saying you have to hand it over.
The examples you have found of government in your daily life?
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