### social organization | government:

Municipal government
* is either city or town government
  - the first order of government and the cornerstone of Canadian democracy
* make laws at a local level.
* makes effort.
* provide fire protection, police, sanitation and other such services.

Oppressive government
* causes some people to commit violent acts.
+ Oppression: Sociology
  * It can also describe the feeling of people who are oppressed. Oppressive governments can lead to a rebellion.

Representative government
* is party government
  - self-government
* step away from pure, or direct, democracy.

Republican government
* is founded on popular sovereignty
  - generally superior to other forms of government
* replace royal and proprietary rule.

Small government
* is limited to defending our lives, our liberty, and our property.
* night watchman, a tiny institution that does only the bare essentials.

### social organization | government:

State government
* Every state government regulates insurance.
* Most state governments have a special office that investigates consumer problems and complaints
  - regulate charitable organizations
* Some state governments levy both inheritance and estate taxes
  - regulate diesel smoke emissions
* State Governments have a direct interest in their role as the dominant employers of nurses.
* are also divided into executive, legislative and judicial branches
* are large employers who can benefit by participating in state and local BLNs
  - information technology consumers
* can be just as bureaucratic and burdensome as the federal government
  - help industries learn how to prevent pollution
* depend on both income and sales taxes.
* determine the amount of bonds they plan to issue independently.
* has roles.
* have Web sites
  - lending and guarantee systems, and they also use industrial revenue bonds
  - offices that focus on trade and export promotion
  - the right to collect tax revenues
  - their own securities laws and regulations
* identify the names and boundaries of state reservations.
* is government
  - regional government
  - the leading base of the economy
* operate numerous types of self-insurance funds.
* oversee the licensing of nursing homes.
* play a similar role within their own boundaries.
* plays key roles
* provides alternative food sources
* use licensure and certification laws to regulate the assisted living community.
+ United States, Government: English-speaking countries :: G8 nations
  * The United States is a federal republic. The federal government is set up by the Constitution. There are three branches of government. They are the 'executive branch', the 'legislative branch', and the 'judicial branch'. State governments work very much like the federal government.

Student government
* are state agencies, in that they operate similarly to the state government.
* class that helps someone become a better leader and a better person.

Totalitarian state
* are anti-market.
* attempt to efface memory and force the adoption of mythologies.
* survive by keeping their subjects ignorant and servile.

### social organization | government:

Tribal government
* are able to provide their citizens with improved health care and education
  - as varied as the tribes, native villages and reservations they represent
  - inherently closer to their people than are the state and federal governments
* is autonomous, with status similar to a municipality.
* make decisions about civil disputes which take place on reservation land.
* promote personal responsibility and work opportunity for their members.
* use their revenues to provide basic governmental services to Indian communities.
* wear two hats, acting as both governing body and business enterprise.