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Old 05-06-2008, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by White Fox View Post
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.


In my mind the purpose of government is to protect people's ability to do whatever they want, as long as that does not infringe on some one else's right to do whatever they want. Then that is where government should step in, to protect our rights!
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