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FIVE PURPOSES OFGOVERNMENT
#1SOLVING CONFLICTS(Domestic Tranquility)
• How to distribute resources
Property
Food
• Maintain public order
through power, or the ability to influence
Power is not always by force
Authority is legitimate power
Implies moral correctnessAcceptance
Power and authority are essential to solving conflict.
#2 Providing Public Service(General Welfare)
Distributing benefits
such as:
Welfare
Disability
Social Security
#3 National Security and Common Defense
• Standing Armies
• Secure Borders
• Diplomacy
#4 Setting Public Policy(General Welfare)
• Improving the Lives of its citizens
• Such as Improving education
• Improving Roads
• Lowering Taxes
#5 Preserving Culture(Secure Liberty and
Democracy)• Culture
#5 Preserving Culture• VALUES
• American Dream
• Individual Freedom
• Choice in Education
• Family
• LANGUAGE
#5 Preserving Culture
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2006-04-27-spanish-spangled-banner_x.htm
#5 Preserving Culture• BELIEFS
• http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/edwards-v-aguillard.html
#6 A More Perfect Union
Solve new conflicts as they arise
#7 Establish Justice
EQUALITY FOR EVERYONE
Capitalism vs. Communism