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A government is "the organization, that is the governing authority of a political unit," "the ruling power in a political society," an the apparatus through which a governing body functions and exercises authority. "Government, with the authority to make laws, to adjudicate disputes, and to issue administrative decisions, and with a monopoly of authorized force where it fails to persuade, is an indispensable means, proximately, to the peace of communal life." Statist theorists maintain that the necessity of government derives from the fact that the people need to live in communities, yet personal autonomy must be constrained in these communities.

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  • Adams wished for one "Of laws, and not of man", but felt that "fear is the foundation of most"
  • It says that if this denies people their rights, the people have the right "to alter or abolish it"
  • Paine wrote that it "Even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one"
  • The 1992 book "Reinventing" this inspired Al Gore to try to do just that
  • John Locke influenced future democracies with "Two Treatises of" this
  • In 1811 Joseph de Maistre wrote in "Letter to X", "Every nation has the" one of these "it deserves"
  • Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration evolved into the Kennedy School of this

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