  American Government: Why Government?    You Might Also Like
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reviewed. Please purchase the lesson to review.  "Without
government," Thomas Hobbs wrote in the 17^th Century, "life
would be a war of all against all." He described life in such a
situation as being solitary, poor, nasty, broodish and short. I
once had a professor, who that describes very well. If you think
about it, all societies throughout human history have formed
governments. I've never much thought about why and perhaps you
haven't either. Why don't we have live and let live, you do your
thing, I do mine and let's just leave it at that? We Americans
love to complain ab