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You are saying that government is a tool based on the type of force upon which it is established. Be it Strength, The Majority, The Working Class, The Educated, etc. Without the government as a tool, that form of force can't be misused. Government is a way for those that fall into the category of authority to use that authority against others without their consent.
Is that what you're saying?
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I am saying that in the United States, the Federal Government is a tool of force created by the people to take care of the needs that States could not do, uniformly, without bias. The State governments are tools of force created by the people to take care of things the counties/parishes/cities and villages could not do, uniformly, without bias. Its "authority" is limited, clearly, by the Constitution.
These governments were largely created to simplify/equalize trade within a specific "region" of the nation, as well as to provide access to government to citizens, not to provide the roles they have "assumed" by legal and illegal means over time to what they are today including everything from health and human services to city services,bank, police and fire insurers, etc.....
The root fact is that government is a tool of force, and it derives it force from all people, not some people. Our country was not founded on a "simple majority" principle. Our Constitution takes the place of a seated King, literally. The Bill of Rights is non-negotiable, or in the drafters words I believe inalienable. These rights may not be infringed, by government, regardless of claimed necessity, authority or mandate. We have a three branch government, that was supposed to ensure this did not happen, supposedly by making it "too hard" to permeate with corrupt players, without the people noticing, and taking action. Keep in mind, that the Constitution is a "contract" of government, between the people, and the government they created.
The changes have taken place, piecemeal, over generations so slowly, that the people are just now waking up to the level at which our nation has been stolen, by those that pass laws, and now (thanks to them) operate outside its auspice, based on unjust authority, using unjust methods of law passage and "end-runs" around the Constitution, and the peoples knowledge.
So, to sum up.
Government is force. Application of force is governments only purpose.
The United States Government, is Constitutionally Limited force, as well as limited by the people, at any time they seek to exercise that right by peaceful means, or whatever means necessity should dictate.