| The Beginning | | | | or believing what you want. The government |
| | | | has no right to pass such laws any more than |
| If a group of people were to live on an | | | | I have the right to pass such laws. |
| island, who would govern who, how, and why? | | | | |
| If person A suspected person B of possessing | | | | The Middle |
| a deadly weapon (if this were a crime), then | | | | |
| how could we justify person A searching | | | | The Republic is a type of government where |
| person B? Whatever reason offered for | | | | the people vote for one person to rule all. |
| justification of search and seizure, it also | | | | This varies from other types of governments |
| justifies person B searching person A. On | | | | where, more or less, a ruler maintains their |
| this island, who would be the government? | | | | power. By maintaining power, I do not mean |
| Who would rule? Whatever can justify the | | | | by campaigning, but rather by an army |
| rule of person A can also justify the rule of | | | | theratening the populace. Such a ruler may |
| person B. If one person is elected on the | | | | be known as a dictator or a monarch. |
| island, through some sort of Republic | | | | However, there are some who stipulate that a |
| process, how is he justified in passing and | | | | king's rule is tryanny to the rule of an |
| enforcing laws? If an elected ruler passes a | | | | elected official. What can there be, |
| law that anyone to wear a hat is killed, | | | | honestly, to separate the rule of a dictator |
| would it not be equally justified for one | | | | and the rule of an elected official? |
| dissident to make their own government, | | | | Historically, both are prone to commit the |
| passing legislation that wearing hats is | | | | most atrocious acts, often defending |
| acceptable? A government may be defined as a | | | | themselves with the idea that they are |
| person or a persons trying to enforce a rule | | | | defending their land. Furthermore, both |
| or regulation. And if one government can be | | | | presidents and kings have accepted bribery |
| formed by one person, with legislation passed | | | | and corruption. What can there be to |
| that possessing head fashion is illegal, so | | | | separate a Dictatorship and a Republic? It |
| another one is not more wrong in making it | | | | still gives one person, out of thousands, |
| legal. By what right would one government | | | | possibly millions, it gives this one person |
| have the right to tell one person to do, any | | | | control over the rest of the populace. And |
| more than the one person would have the right | | | | whether or not a Constitution exists in this |
| to tell what the government to do? Is there | | | | Monarchy or Republic, kings and presidents |
| anything intrinsically distinctive of either | | | | have both trampled them to pieces in the wake |
| the individual or the government that allows | | | | of their search for power and wealth. There |
| one to control the other without restraint? | | | | is one solitary difference between a dictator |
| If this individual opposed the state's | | | | and a president: one is elected, one is not. |
| regulation as much as the state opposed the | | | | The similarities between these two, though, |
| individual's actions, how is one more | | | | is endless: their cruel search for power, the |
| justified in controlling the other? There | | | | history of their relentlessness in |
| can be no appeal to one being intrinsically | | | | eliminating enemies, they rule a population |
| right and one being intrinsically wrong: | | | | without restrain or control, save the |
| there have been just as many bad governments | | | | remnants of their conscience. |
| as there have been bad rebels. So, if a | | | | |
| party of people lived on an island, who would | | | | The United States' administration differs |
| govern who, and how could it possibly be | | | | from that of a Latin Dictatorship in one way: |
| justified? | | | | how they are chosen. The United States goes |
| | | | through the process of election where we |
| Take into consideration the lack of | | | | choose our president, but even this failed, |
| justification for government to rule anyone | | | | as the majority voted against the president |
| on this island, as for the United States to | | | | who seized power. If there is any proof of |
| rule anyone on this land. Just as a | | | | corruption of power, of how a president is |
| government on the island can oppose an | | | | nothing more than a dictator, then let it be |
| individual's actions, so does our United | | | | this: our current president was voted against |
| States government oppose some of our actions, | | | | by the people, but he rules us anyway. His |
| as they carry out their regulation. Use of | | | | laws control our bodies, even though we did |
| Marijuana, a harmless practice, has been | | | | not choose him. George W. Bush is not in |
| banned by the state. By what writ can the | | | | power because he was elected. He is in power |
| government jail Marijuana users, any more | | | | because of his army, because of his secret, |
| than Marijuana users can enforce their own | | | | underground spy network which keeps tabs on |
| regulation allowing Marijuana? If a police | | | | +300 million American suspects. The |
| officer is justified in arresting members of | | | | difference between a Republic and a |
| society who do no harm but just commit a | | | | Dictatorship is election, but both |
| crime, then a citizen must be justified in | | | | governments give unfair power to one person |
| arresting the government equally. There is | | | | to rule all people, and both are productive |
| no divine mandate given to anyone to rule, | | | | of heartless, cruel atrocities. |
| control, and kill others, be it any populace | | | | |
| member or any government. The similarities | | | | The Ending |
| between the hypothetical island scenario and | | | | |
| the United States government are undeniable. | | | | By what right does a police officer have to |
| The United States government has no right to | | | | detain me, anymore than I have the right to |
| rule me any more than I have a right to rule | | | | detain the police officer? How isa president |
| those people who make up the government. Nor | | | | more qualified to rule a populace than a |
| ar they justified in any of their | | | | dictator? Why is it so impossible to imagine |
| legislation, and enforcing their legislation, | | | | a society that rules itself, with Direct |
| whether it is outlawing murder, wearing hats, | | | | Democracy, and no leaders or police officers? |