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= 5 Purposes of Government =

**1) Protection of Individual Rights**-
All people have three rights: **Life**, **Liberty**, and **Property**. The government's job is to make sure that every single citizen can maintain these rights, and nobody can take it from them without their consent.

**2) Maintaining Order-**
The **Government** helps people make decisions that they can't solve amongst themselves. That's what we have **Courts**, **Police**, **Judges** and **Laws** for. Governments provide structures such as courts to help people resolve disagreements in an orderly manner.

**3) Providing Public Services -**
The government has to provide for the people, things that will benefit everybody in society. **Schools** must be provided, **Public Cleaning** must be provided, things that keep us safe like **Police**, and **Firefighters**.



**4) Providing a National Defense -**
Protecting the nation against foreign invaders. To maintain the **Nations Security**, nations maintain an **Army**, **Navy**, **Airforce**, and **Coast Guard** === ===

5) **Direct Economic Decisions**
Nations make decisions that affect the economy. Governments intervene in affairs with other countries only in cases that affect the Economy. The government also makes decisions and choices that benefit the citizens and public services.