Try to see clearly.

Government is so much a matter of common sense, that you can assuredly understand much of it if you determine so to do.
STUDIES IN CIVICS.
PRELIMINARY CHAPTER.
GOVERNMENT: WHAT IT IS AND WHY IT IS.
At the very beginning of our study, two questions naturally present themselves: First.

What is government?
Second.

Why do we have such a thing?
These questions are much easier to ask than to answer.

The wisest men of the ages have pondered upon them, and their answers have varied widely.
Yet we need not despair.