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Is the Government, the People?
I hear at times when talking about the Government and the People, some will say something along the line "that is a misnomer, the Government is the People" when talking about powers/roles of each. Is this true, or is there a distinct difference between Government and the People?
The Government is the representatives of the people, it has been granted the authority to exercise power the people cannot mainly to make law, enforce law, and judge law, government remains a sovereign entity (as can be noted by its sovereign immunity in civil cases except for blatant neglect).
Government is bound by a contract of power, derived by the people, the people are not. It is because of this contract the people expect the government to operate within its defined limits, the people retain all other rights.
As was noted by one of, for, by from President Lincoln's Gettysburg address, but he misses the point behind it. The Government is made up by the People, it purpose is for the People, and it was CREATED by the People, but Lincoln was clear to make the difference between the People and Government, the OF, FOR, BY is what Government is made up of (not aristocracy), who it is For (not government itself), Who it was made by (Not a man, but by the people).
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
No, "we the people" are not the Government. That has bothered me as well. "We the people in order to form a more perfect union"...etc... Elect Representatives and hire them to represent us. They are not "we the people" They are our representatives. We hired them to have only the power delegated to them by the laws established in the Constitution. They have used their power as our representatives to expand their power beyond that that which is established in the Constitution. In my opinion those who abuse their power should be fired.
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
The government is SUPPOSED to be the People.
Or, at least, elected representatives of the People.
This has not been the case for some time.
The government has become little more than a tool for the profit of those who participate and those who provide the bribe money.
It is a requirement that one be wealthy, or supported by the wealthy, if they wish to participate. This is less of a "democracy" than it is a plutocracy.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Not when it takes $800 million to win the Presidency, no.
It is obvious in here that most of the people don't consider themselves to have any power in what occurs in government, I certainly don't.
- libstickerLv 71 decade ago
No, it's to big and cumbersome to be the people anymore. Now it's a system, an organism of it's own, because the people didn't do due diligence.
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- ellisdeeLv 71 decade ago
It's supposed to be, but the Obama administration doesn't give a ratz azz what the PEOPLE say, think, or do....
- apeman605Lv 71 decade ago
Theoretically. However the political class have set themselves above us and we have done nothing about it.
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
Everyone who is in government is a person. The government is a group of people who have heads, hearts, lungs, etc.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
not anymore.... sadly
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