A full inspection of Government

"A full inspection of" is going to be a thread series. The definition of inspection is "to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically." Therefore we will be inspecting government in this thread. We will be focused on three questions.
1.What is government?
2.Is having government preferable to not having government?
3.If it is preferable to have government, is there an ideal form of government and if there is an ideal form, what is it?

This is collaborative inspection, that means for those of you interested in doing this we're going to go BROAD and DEEP. If you have any particular subjects that you want smart and inquisitive people to get to the bottom of, conclusively, let me know and it I will incorporate it into this thread series. I'm just now heading into work so I will make my contributions to this thread later. The key to this thread is going to be thorough inspection and dialog.

a reply to: Aristotelian1
I'm doing this because most people think too much and inspect too little.

originally posted by: Aristotelian1
1.What is government?

First and foremost, Governments are not in control, it is used as a facade.

Benjamin Disraeli said it best:

"Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand." ~ Benjamin Disraeli; Prime Minister of England

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

Past presidents of the United States and other high profile political leaders have repeatedly issued warnings over the last 214 years that the U.S. government is under the control of an “invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”

According to six of our former presidents, one vice-president, and a myriad of other high profile political leaders, an invisible government that is “incredibly evil in intent” has been in control of the U.S. government “ever since the days of Andrew Jackson” (since at least 1836). They “virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both parties… It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.”

As a result, “we have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.”

“A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.” – John C. Calhoun, Vice President (1825-1832)

From Washington to JFK: Former Presidents Warn About Illuminati

"Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the fields of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." ~ Woodrow Wilson

Many governments have come before our form or democracy, rose and fell in times past.

Winston Churchill was a perceptive observer of human attempts at government. He believed in the democratic system, though he didn’t always appreciate the results. He knew that along with other forms it was imperfect. A couple of years after the British people rejected his post–World War II leadership, he said: "Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

I think a government with much fewer intrusive laws. Not one where a 'lawmaking' is a profession, and sought as a high paying career, to pay for that Bentley and home in the Hamptons. The smaller government, the more manageable, but that is not what the bureaucrats would like, living off the effort of others.

Perhaps people have forgot that from the beginning, the rulers were Kings, with kingdoms. They have also fell for lack of honesty and corruption. King David was prosperous until he let lust interfere with his rule, and then by Divine powers he was left with a fading kingdom.

It will not set well with a lot of atheists here, but the governments where God was first were the most prosperous. I'll leave it at that.