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 * The 5 Purposes of Government b****y: Matt Sostarics**


 * The United States government today serves alot of important purposes.** **There are 5 main ones that I am going to tell you about today.**


 * __//**Protection of Individual Rights**//__

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 * All people are born free and equal, with three natural rights. These rights are life, liberty, and property. People sought out the government to ensure these rights would be protected and everyone would follow it. Therefore the government now makes sure the rights of life, liberty, and property are followed by making them laws that every single person gets these rights, no matter who they are. For example it doesn't matter what race you are or what religion you follow, you will get these individual rights if you are a citizen of the United States. This purpose is significant to the stability of society because if a single group of** **people were singled out, then there could me wars such as the civil war.**

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 * __//**Maintaining Order**//__




 * The government keeps everything in check and running smoothly. Whenever there is a conflict they have ways to resolve the matter. This provides citizens the ability to live orderly lives and be safe.**
 * This is significant to the stability of society because if there was no order being maintained in a community no one would feel safe and would not want to live there, plus there would be no peace between people.**

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 * **//__Providing Public Services__//**


 * The government enforces laws that promote public health and safety, such as safe working conditions, safe food to eat, and safe water, roads, and air. This is significant to the stability of society because if the conditions i listed above were unsafe then society would be sick all the time and unhealthy.**

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 * **//__Providing a National Defense__//**


 * The government has various sectors of defense to ensure our safety. Some of these sectors are the Marines, the Air force, the Navy, the Army. This is important to our stability because if we didn't have a defense for our country, we would be pushed around and weak.**

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 * **//Direct Economic Decisions//**


 * [[image:economic.jpg width="300" height="165" align="right"]] The government tries their best to provide their citizens with economic opportunities or resources. They pass laws that shape the economic decision making of the nation. They do this to keep the economy stable and keep improving it. Without a stable economy people wouldn't be able to get/maintain jobs and products will get more expensive.**

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