Question

why are individual rights important for the government?

Answer 1

Individual rights are important because we all have rights that are specific to us. We have the ability to self govern due to the Mayflower Compact.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

The purpose of government is to protect the individual rights of its citizens. Since rights can be assaulted both within a country or outside of it, the government must deal with either threat. This requires an army for defense of the country, and a police system to protect the individual citizens from other individuals within the country.

To ensure that rights are upheld properly, the judgment of the use of force must be objective. Since individuals involved in an incident are not likely to be objective, it is the government's job to judge the individual use of force by its citizens. For this reason, the government must provide a court system. Laws are the tools by which the court decides if a use of force is valid or not.

Answer 5

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