Assertion: government's power | /r/HasProperty | acquired
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text: Political power is acquired and exercised in order to significantly affect the government's authoritative decisions and actions on public policy--either decisionmaking and action on public policy in general or decisionmaking and action in a particular area of public policy (let's say, public education, national health insurance, immigration, drug enforcement, civil rights, affirma- tive action, taxation, energy policy, environmental protection, gun control, or regulation of abortion).