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''For a free course about government, see [[American Government Lecture One]]''.
<small>''For a free course about government, see [[American Government Lecture One]]''</small>
A '''government''' is an entity that has the [[authority]] to make and enforce [[laws]], and to rule the actions and affairs of others within a geopolitical boundary. [[God]]'s purpose for government is to protect the [[innocent]] by punishing the [[guilty]], and to protect [[life]] and [[property]]. Governments are established by a set of penultimate norms, also known as [[U.S. Constitution|constitutions]]. In the [[American]] system of [[democracy]], some laws are created by [[representatives]]. Around the world and throughout [[history]] there have been many types of governments, some promoting freedom, some restrictive of freedom, and some repressive to to point where little to no freedom exists.
A '''government''' is an entity that has the [[authority]] to make and enforce [[laws]], and to rule the actions and affairs of others within a geopolitical boundary. [[God]]'s purpose for government is to protect the [[innocent]] by punishing the [[guilty]], and to protect [[life]] and [[property]]. Governments are established by a set of penultimate norms, also known as [[U.S. Constitution|constitutions]]. In the [[American]] system of [[democracy]], some laws are created by [[representatives]]. Around the world and throughout [[history]] there have been many types of governments, some promoting freedom, some restrictive of freedom, and some repressive to to point where little to no freedom exists.
==Types of Government==
==Types of Government==
[[File:Govt placement chart.png|right|150px|thumb|Government placement chart, based on degree of power government wields over the individual.]]
Currently, the current spread of government rests on a "left-right" chart, with communism and socialism on the far left, fascism and nazism on the far right. Somewhere in the middle is democracy and republicanism, maintaining a balance in the center.
Currently, the current spread of government rests on a "left-right" chart, with communism and socialism on the far left, fascism and nazism on the far right. Somewhere in the middle is democracy and republicanism, maintaining a balance in the center.