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A government is "the organization, that is the governing authority of a political unit,"^[1] "the ruling power in a political society,"^[2] and the apparatus through which a governing body functions and exercises authority.^[3] "Government, with the authority to make laws, to adjudicate disputes, and to issue administrative decisions, and with a monopoly of authorized force where it fails to persuade, is an indispensable means, proximately, to the peace of communal life."^[4] "A compulsory territorial monopolist of protection and jurisdiction equipped with the power to tax without unanimous consent."^[5] Statist theorists maintain that the necessity of government derives from the fact that the people need to live in communities, yet personal autonomy must be constrained in these communities.

A state or province of sufficient size and complexity will have different layers or levels of government local, regional and national.

Some countries have hybrid forms of Government such as modern Iran with its combination of democratic and theocratic institutions, and constitutional monarchies such as The Netherlands combine elements of monarchy and democracy.^[15][16]

For many thousands of years when people were hunter-gatherers and small scale farmers, humans lived in small, "relatively non-hierarchical" and mostly self-sufficient communities. However, the human ability to precisely communicate abstract, learned information allowed humans to become ever more effective at agriculture,^[17] and that allowed for ever increasing population densities.^[18] David Christian explains how this resulted in states with laws and governments

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