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Questions and Answers
What is the basic purpose of government?
What is the basic purpose of government?
- To provide services and protect the common good (correct)
- To hoard resources and power
- To create conflict and chaos
- To oppress the people
What is included in protecting the common good?
What is included in protecting the common good?
- Creating social unrest
- Enforcing unjust laws
- Building roads and schools, defending the country from attack (correct)
- Exploiting the population for personal gain
What have not changed much over time?
What have not changed much over time?
- The exploitation of resources by the government
- The purposes of government (correct)
- The oppression of the people
- The accumulation of power by the government
What did groups have before modern governments existed?
What did groups have before modern governments existed?
What are the functions and structures of government doing over time?
What are the functions and structures of government doing over time?