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.

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Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri's . government. won a resounding vote of confidence from parliament on Thursday, paving the way for his expected visit to Syria for talks with the country's president. Lebanon's new . government. , which ...

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The Obama Administration released the long anticipated Open . Government. Directive on Tuesday. It lays out some ambitious steps for executive departments and agencies to take over the relatively near-term to be more transparent, ...

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Sifting through . government. e-mails got a lot more fun these past coupe of weeks. It seems the Brunswick County workers and I share an interest Christmas music. So while singing along to the holiday tunes (in my head, ...

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How has divided government contributed to the decline in trust and confidence in government?
Q. How has divided government contributed to the decline in trust and confidence in government?
Asked by Madison - Fri Oct 30 17:53:17 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. name one person, who has ever had trust and confidence in our Government. lol*
Answered by molkey - Fri Oct 30 22:18:37 2009

Is there a government that is intolerant to a lot of behaviour which an individual should experience?
Q. I want to compare it to the government in Salem during the witch trials, whereby individuals were restricted and couldnt preform things such as dancing and reading books beside the bible. Any previous governments or governments today that were like this to some extent? Thanks in advance. 10 points for best answer.
Asked by AFL Fanatic - Tue May 13 05:33:38 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Look at most of the feudal governments during the Dark Ages. They were pretty much all under the control of the Roman Catholic church, which tried to control the lives of everyone under it.
Answered by Yun - Tue May 13 08:14:47 2008

How is the murder of a government official punished?
Q. This is for a school project. Is the assasination of a government official such as a president, senator, vice president, etc. punished as if they were common people, or is the crime more severe because they're government officials. Would it be considered a felony? first degree murder? How is it punished?
Asked by dave5d - Tue Dec 1 00:40:05 2009 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. It is more severe, I'm pretty sure it is automatically life w/o parole. The death penalty would be even more likely w/ higher officials (senators, VP, Pres), people get the death penalty for killing regular cops (as they should)
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Sat Dec 12 07:20:02 2009

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.