Beyond that it seems to see itself as merely an inconvenient and irrelevant aspect of community life which should make itself as small as poss ible or do away with itself altogether. Government is not an alien imposition on the community. Government is not a virus from Mars or a cruel joke of the gods. Societies have fought long and hard to establish democratic government. The ancient Greeks knew that government done properly is the people, is the community.
Government is an integral and inherent part of any healthy community.
Human society cannot and must not be reduced to mere business values and transactions, and neither can government be reduced to mere financial, commercial or economic knob twiddling. I want to make some brief remarks on constitutional matters arising out of extensive work I did for WA's Commission on Government. The Australian constitution gained its legitimacy by being designed by Australians and by being convincingly approved by the people by referendum. It has never been accorded popular and democratic approval through a convincing referendum process. In WA we have an incomplete and fragmented set of precedents and documents that provide something of a constitutional framework.