A government is the body within a community, political entity or organization which has the authority to make and enforce rules, laws, and regulations..

Typically, the term "government" refers to a civil government or sovereign state which can be either local, national, or international. However, commercial, academic, religious, or other formal organizations are also governed by internal bodies. Such bodies may be called boards of directors, managers, or governors or they may be known as the administration (as in schools) or councils of elders (as in churches). The size of governments can vary by region or purpose.

Growth of an organization advances the complexity of its government, therefore small towns or small-to-medium privately-operated enterprises will have fewer officials than typically larger organizations such as multinational corporations which tend to have multiple interlocking, hierarchical layers of administration and governance. As complexity increases and the nature of governance becomes more complicated, so does the need for formal policies and procedures.

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Will federal agencies really become more fully transparent, participatory and collaborative, as the Obama Administration'​s Open . Government. Directive promises? Hopes are high among advocates of the new policies that such practices will ...

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What type of government creates a legal necessity to become dependent on government social programs?
Q. for their means of survival as opposed to freedom in re to Life, Liberty & Pursuits of Happiness? Would deviants in opposition to this alteration in government policy be either ill or criminal?
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A. A government that understands that the meek need assistance or they will perish. A government backed by the majority of its citizens who believe the same.
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Q. How does federalism keep government closer to the people? Is state government necessarily more responsive to the people than the federal government?
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A. Not always. In fact, having the system of federalism allowed civil rights activists to file federal lawsuits (such as brown versus board of education) because they knew that filing state lawsuits would never get them anywhere. On the other hand, state government has a hand in much of the governance that touches individuals on an every day basis such as policing, local government, roads etc.
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How is the government seriously gonna deal with massive debt without collapsing on itself or raising taxes?
Q. Government right now is a huge Ponzi scheme, Youre paying taxes to cover peoples Social Security and medicare even though they paid for it when they were younger. But the government spent that money and is now paying them back with your money, and nothing is going into savings for you. Do you think this is true?
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A. They are going to raise taxes
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  • [Administration] covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, guided; men are seldom restrained from acting, such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which government is the shepherd.
  • A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: “I, the state, am the people. It is a lie! Creators were they who created peoples, and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served life.Destroyers, are they who lay snares for many, and call it the state: they hang a sword and a hundred cravings over them.
  • Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.