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