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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us. — Barack Obama, University of Michigan Commencement, 2010

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Introduction¹

Dictionary

government : the organization, machinery, or agency through which a political unit exercises authority and performs functions and which is usually classified according to the distribution of power within it — Webster See also OneLook, Free Dictionary, Wiktionary

Thesaurus

Roget’s II (Thesaurus.com), Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Visuwords

Encyclopedia

Government is the system by which a state or community is controlled. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislators, administrators, and arbitrators. Government is the means by which state policy is enforced, as well as the mechanism for determining the policy of the state. A form of government, or form of state governance, refers to the set of political systems and institutions that make up the organization of a specific government. Government of any kind currently affects every human activity in many important ways. For this reason, political scientists generally argue that government should not be studied by itself; but should be studied along with anthropology, economics, environmentalism, history, philosophy, science, and sociology. — Wikipedia

Encyclopædia Britannica

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Preservation

History

Quotation

Quotations Page

Library

WorldCat, Library of Congress, UPenn Online Books, Open Library

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Participation

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. — Thomas Jefferson

Education

Government

Document

Tutorials on finding government information (USA.gov) (Search USA.gov)

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Expression

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. — Thomas Jefferson