Purposes of Government

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  1. 4. believed that government was all powerful, that the state of nature is violent and harsh and that people are innately self-interested
  2. 5. the formal institutions and processes through which decisions are made for a group of people
  3. 6. any decision made by government in pursuit of a particular goal
  4. 7. government's authority and ability to get things done
  5. 9. believed that in the state of nature humans lived happy and free, and that government should be based upon social contract and responsive to the will of the people
  6. 12. believed that the state of nature is governed by natural law and introduced the idea that people have natural rights of life, liberty and property
  7. 13. a political unit with the power to make and enforce laws over a group of people living within a clearly defined territory
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  1. 1. clearly defined and recognized borders
  2. 2. a group of people living within a clearly defined border
  3. 3. the idea that governments were formed because people submitted to the authority of a state in exchange for protection and support
  4. 8. used to refer a ruler's right and proper authority to rule over a population
  5. 10. an idea that a ruler is answerable to God and not to the people
  6. 11. supreme power to act within a territory and to control internal and external affairs