1. FIVE PURPOSES OF GOVERNMENT

2. #1SOLVING CONFLICTS (Domestic Tranquility)
How to distribute resources
Property
Food
• Maintain public order
through power, or the ability to influence

3. Power is not always by force
Authority is legitimate power
Implies moral correctness
Acceptance
Power and authority are essential to solving conflict.

4. #2 Providing Public Service (General Welfare)
Distributing benefits
such as:
Welfare
Disability
Social Security

5. #3 National Security and Common Defense
Standing Armies
Secure Borders
Diplomacy

6. #4 Setting Public Policy (General Welfare)
Improving the Lives of its citizens
Such as Improving education
Improving Roads
Lowering Taxes

7. #5 Preserving Culture (Secure Liberty and Democracy)

8. #5 Preserving Culture VALUES American Dream Individual Freedom
Choice in Education
Family

9. #5 Preserving Culture LANGUAGE

10. #5 Preserving Culture BELIEFS

11. #6 A More Perfect Union EQUALITY FOR EVERYONE
Solve new conflicts as they arise
#7 Establish Justice
EQUALITY FOR EVERYONE

12. Capitalism vs. Communism