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=**The Five Purposes of Government**=

__Protection of Individual Rights:__
For example:
 * Everyone has a right of life, liberty, and territory
 * The government are there to secure and protect your rights by making them law
 * The government allows us to these rights so everyone can be equal and pursue happiness equally
 * Fail to respect these laws or break the rules, is a crime because a right was taken without permission

__Maintain Order:__
For Example: Government is basically like the police, telling you what you shouldn't do and protecting you when in danger
 * The government prevent or stops us from creating chaos
 * Without government there would be destruction made by bad people that think they can do what they want
 * This is why government controls the problems created between people and stops them

__Provide Public Service:__

 * The government does the jobs that we don't think about
 * Making roads
 * Building sewer systems
 * And promotes general welfare, which is giving food to the poor

**__Provide a National Defense__**

 * The government makes sure that our country is safe
 * To secure our country we have:
 * an army
 * navy
 * air force
 * coast guard
 * marines
 * Our government also signs treaties with other countries in case of war

__Direct Economic Decisions__

 * The government regulates the economic system to reduce conflict
 * Government decide who, what, and how products are produced
 * Government passes laws to form how economic decisions are made
 * provide national currency
 * control economic decisions
 * Government distributes benefits to citizens