Noun

Singular government

Plural countable and uncountable; plural governments

government (countable and uncountable; plural governments)

  1. The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws for a country, land area, people, or organization.
  2. A group of people who hold a monopoly on the legitimate use of force in a given territory.
  3. The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.
  4. (uncountable) The management or control of a system.
  5. The tenure of a chief of state.

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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Wed Jan 13 10:26:58 2010

A government is the body within a community, political entity or organization which has the authority to make and enforce rules, laws, and regulations..

Typically, the term "government" refers to a civil government or sovereign state which can be either local, national, or international. However, commercial, academic, religious, or other formal organizations are also governed by internal bodies. Such bodies may be called boards of directors, managers, or governors or they may be known as the administration (as in schools) or councils of elders (as in churches). The size of governments can vary by region or purpose.

Growth of an organization advances the complexity of its government, therefore small towns or small-to-medium privately-operated enterprises will have fewer officials than typically larger organizations such as multinational corporations which tend to have multiple interlocking, hierarchical layers of administration and governance. As complexity increases and the nature of governance becomes more complicated, so does the need for formal policies and procedures.

From Wikipedia under the GNU Free Documentation License
Sat Jan 2 12:28:47 2010

How government can take all aspects of our life under its control?
Q. What government can do to gain a total control of its citizens, so that they agree and don't protest?
Asked by Mudda P - Sat Jan 9 21:33:14 2010 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. One of the ways is to scare citizens with a thought that they are under constant threat of terrorist attack. In this case people will give away their freedoms to government themselves on a "golden tray". Look how news brainwash our minds today. They show people saying: " I embrace total body scan checks at the airports. I feel safer now." Step by step, news and different kinds of polls will demonstrate us on TV that people embrace such type of things: scans, checks etc. So, that they (such checks and surveillance) will be adopted as a normal things in our day-to-day lives, as a law. And,very soon, in the nearest future, every single person will be under constant video and audio surveillance. Every single person will have a chip implanted… [cont.]
Answered by Profundum - Sat Jan 9 21:53:48 2010

How many people think Big government liberals are fascist deep down?
Q. I read a book called liberal fascism and it explained to me everything why modern liberals are the way they are because most of their big government ideas came from the fascist ideas that emerged in the beginning of the twentieth century. It explains why they want to ban smoking and fast foods and have a irrational fear that anyone that has christian values wants to force them to join. There whole belief structer resolves around the idea that government has the power to shape our lives and society into whatever form the government wants it to be.
Asked by thetimbosley - Tue Sep 9 02:49:54 2008 - - 6 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I think liberals like big government.
Answered by rightstuff - Tue Sep 9 02:54:03 2008

What other industry does the government need to target because they make a profit? Food producers?
Q. Should the government get into the food producing business so they can compete against Kraft & General Mills? Shouldn't Americans have more choices and shouldn't it be the governments responsibility to provide competition to private industries so they will make less profits? We cant live without food right? When will Obama get the US government into the food business?
Asked by Invisible - Wed Aug 12 10:59:50 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. way off base...food is cheap.
Answered by VikkieBlonde - Wed Aug 12 11:06:17 2009

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A government is a body that has the authority to make and the power to enforce laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.

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  • [Administration] covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, guided; men are seldom restrained from acting, such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which government is the shepherd.
  • A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: “I, the state, am the people. It is a lie! Creators were they who created peoples, and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served life.Destroyers, are they who lay snares for many, and call it the state: they hang a sword and a hundred cravings over them.
  • Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.