The conflict of interests will soon necessitate tribunals for the settlement of disputes.

And thus government would, in either case, inevitably be established.

A visit from savages inhabiting another island would show the utility of the organization for common defense.
Thus government seems a necessary consequence of man's nature.
In this country we have the general government and state governments, the latter acting chiefly through local organizations.

For obvious reasons, the common defense is vested in the general government.

For reasons that will appear, most of the work of public improvement and establishing justice is entrusted to the state and local governments.
These we shall now proceed to study, beginning at home.
QUERIES .-- Would government be necessary if man were morally perfect?
Why is this organization of society called _government ?_.