Originally Posted by White Fox

What is it? Please be explicit as possible. This is a relatively simple question, so let's see what you think.

Personally, I think the government's only purposes are to:

1.) Protect the rights, life, liberty, and property, of all the individuals in the nation.
2.) Defend the country from foreign or domestic invasion or subversion.
3.) Protect the free market from the forces of monopolies.
4.) Provide a system that represents the people, so that the power of the government is put in check.
5.) Ensure that no one person or group in the government becomes so powerful as to prevent any of the previous purposes.