The Responsibility Of Government In Plato's Republic

Government is necessary for the country and maintaining its control. Without government, we’d have anarchy, which is the lack of government. With anarchy comes chaos, and with chaos comes destruction. We have a government in order to prevent the destruction of our beloved country. We elect representatives in our democracy of a government to create laws and protect us from chaos. Basically our government is meant to help the people distinguish morals and punish those who do not abide to the protective laws. The government also gives us our natural rights. Our natural rights are the rights we have under the law. The government determines those natural rights, for example, the right to life, the right to freedom, the right to happiness, the right to worship, and the right to property. We also have government to regulate taxes for public things, such as roads, public education, waste, and other federally funded things.

The framers of the constitution had various motives and intentions for the constitution and government for the new country, and not all of those motives and intentions were necessarily good or bad- it …show more content…
Republicanism comes from philosopher Plato and his republic. A republic is a government in which elected representatives make the decisions. Republics also come from the ideas of Aristotle and Polybius. Constitutionalism focuses on the constitution. Constitutionalism proclaims the desirability of the rule of law as opposed to rule by the arbitrary judgment. Liberty in philosophy means freedom and free will. Some of the earliest talk of liberty dates back to Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who wrote of liberty being “a policy in which there is the same law for all”. The idea of equality could possibly date back to the beginning of humans, with various equality movements throughout history. Pluralism is the acknowledgment of a diversity of political