If society did not distinguish between public and private, public affairs would not be a meaningful realm of social activity. B. More complicated because life in many societies, especially America, is organized around three sectors of activity. The Market Sector 1. The market is a device for allocating and distributing scarce resources. B. The Government Sector 1.
Government encompasses the formal mechanisms by which people in a given territory are ruled.
In most societies, it is government's role to allocate and distribute power. This role is typically conducted through forms of collective, rather than individual, action. Federalism is the term given to the relationship for sharing power in governmental systems where the national government shares power with regional governments. The arrangements are, in fact, more complex. For example, some governmental units overlap the jurisdictions of the larger units in which they are embedded.