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What Is The Purpose of Government?

 What is the purpose of Government?

Government exists to protect the rights of its citizens. The United States Constitution states--


We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Below are some historic quotes & links to sites and articles that futher discuss the purpose of government as viewed by founders. We hope this information will be helpful to you. We welcome your comments.

QUOTES
The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all citizens.
Thomas Jefferson, Note in Destutt de Tracy, 1816
This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.
Thomas Jefferson, 1796

The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be not expressed in direct terms, it is clearly the spirit of the Constitution, and it ought to be so commented and acted on by every friend of free government.
Thomas Jefferson, January, 1797

[A] wise and frugal government... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

[I]t is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government.... Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever persuasion, religious or political....
Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

LINKS

Capitolism.org
http://www.capitalism.org/faq/government.htm

SUGGESTED READING

The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle that Changed the World by W. Cleon Skousen

The Law by Frederic Bastiat

The Purpose of Government by Ezra Taft Benson (Secretary of Agriculture 1953-1961)

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