Why Do We Need Government

Political Science 201 Final Essay David Goodson Why do we need government? We need government to provide for defense, to help the distribute money, resources, and trade with other countries to promote the general welfare, and the purpose of a government is to provide for the safety and protection of American citizens.
Let’s start with the Preamble to the United States Constitution to provide the purpose of government. We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
We are the very ones that provide the wishes of government. We become police officers, judges, and mailmen. Because we the people are the ones budgeting and working to make up government, it only makes sense that we could easily carry out all the things that government controls- without government.
America should be considered a wonderful country. The ideas and customs of America is so high and mighty that it dear be tested. We elect who we want to lead our country and has developed the name “Leader of the free world.” Our military is the finest military in the world. We have never fought a war on American soil except the Civil War. The framers of the Constitution disagreed on many issues when creating the constitution, and were mostly concerned with state representation, providing checks and balances, avoiding giving the government excessive power that would interfere with basic rights and created a court system. The creation of checks and balances were: the judicial branch (to keep order), the legislative branch (to create laws), and the executive branch (to govern). A part of the checks and balances were the inverse of the branches to check each