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    The document outlines two main functions of government: constituent and ministrant. The constituent function establishes the bonds of society through compulsory roles like maintaining order, regulating legal relations and property, administering justice, and dealing with foreign powers. The ministrant function promotes welfare optionally through public works, education, charity, health and safety regulations, and managing trade. A government should exercise optional functions to promote public welfare in areas private groups do not and where the government is better equipped than private entities.

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    Government:

     Gov: institution through which the state excercises power


     Admin: set of people currently running the institution

    Two functions of gov:


    a. Constituent – compulsary function which constitute the bonds of the society
    [Attribute of sovereignty]
    1.Keeping of order and providing for protection of persons and property from violence and
    robbery
    2.Fixing of legal relations between man and wife and between parents and children
    3.The regulation of the holding, transimission, and interchange of property, and the
    determination of its liabilities for debt ot for crime
    4.The determination of contract rights between individuals
    5.The definition and punishment of crime
    6.The administration of justice in civil cases
    7.The determination of the political duties, privileges, and relation of citizens
    8.Dealings of the state with foreign powers: the preservation of teh state from external
    danger or encroachment and the advancement of its international interests

    b. Ministrant – optional functions intended for achieving a better life


    [Promote welfare, progress and prosperity of the people]
    1.Public works
    2.Public education
    3.Public charity,
    4. health and safety regulations
    5.Regulations of trade and industry

    Principles determining whether or not a gov’t shall excercise certein of these optional functions:
     A gov’t shold do fro the public welfare those things whice private capitalwould not naturallt
    undertake
     A gov’t should do these things which by isvery nature ut us better equipped to administer for
    the publice welfare than is any private individual or group of individuals.

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