Government Entity

A Government Entity is an public institution that defines and enforces regional policy for some governed region.

• Context:
  • It can range from (typically) being a Formal Government to being an Informal Government.
  • It can range from being a City Government, Local Government, State/Provincial Government, Federal/National Government.
  • It can (typically) have Government Revenues and Government Assets.
  • It can (typically) have Government Financial Budgets, and produce Governmental Financial Reports (such as a governmental balance sheet)
  • It can (typically) manage Government Programs.
  • It can (typically) offer Government Services.
  • It can (typically) have a Government Lifecycle (of government planning, government revenue raising to fond government operations).
  • It can provide a Judicial System (to protect civil liberty).
  • It can (often) protect Civil Safety.
  • It can be a member of a Governmental Association.
  • It can align is a System of Government (e.g. Democratic Government).
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• Example(s):
  • Local Governments, such as Vancouver city, or Palo Alto city.
  • State/Provincial Governments, such as California state, or British Columbia province.
  • Federal/National Governments, such as Canadian Government, or US Government.
  • United Nations.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • an NGO, such as Amnesty International.
  • a Governmental Organization, such as: UNICEF.
  • a For-Profit Organization, such as Patagonia, Inc. and Alphabet, Inc..
  • a Person, such as a citizen.
• See: Welfare System, Legal System, Legislative System, Government Executive System, Government Entity Fund, Governmental Accounting, Trust in Government.

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References

2021

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government#Definitions_and_etymology Retrieved:2021-6-29.
  • A government is the system to govern a state or community.

    The word government derives, ultimately, from the Greek verb κυβερνάω [kubernáo] (meaning to steer with gubernaculum (rudder), the metaphorical sense being attested in Plato's Ship of State).

    The Columbia Encyclopedia defines government as "a system of social control under which the right to make laws, and the right to enforce them, is vested in a particular group in society".

    While all types of organizations have governance, the word government is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments on Earth, as well as their subsidiary organizations.Finally, government is also sometimes used in English as a synonym for governance.

2013

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government
  • A government is the system by which a state or community is governed. In British English (and that of the Commonwealth of Nations), a government more narrowly refers to the particular executive in control of a state at a given time — known in American English as an administration. In American English, government refers to the larger system by which any state is organized. Furthermore, government is occasionally used in English as a synonym for governance.

    In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislators, administrators, and arbitrators. Government is the means by which state policy is enforced, as well as the mechanism for determining the policy of the state. A form of government, or form of state governance, refers to the set of political systems and institutions that make up the organisation of a specific government.

    Government of any kind currently affects every human activity in many important ways. For this reason, political scientists generally argue that government should not be studied by itself; but should be studied along with anthropology, economics, history, philosophy, science, and sociology.

1848

• (Thoreau, 1848) ⇒ Henry David Thoreau. (1849). “Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience)."
  • QUOTE: I heartily accept the motto, — “That government is best which governs least;” and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe, — “That government is best which governs not at all;” and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

1776

• (Paine, 1776) ⇒ Thomas Paine. (1776). “Common Sense."
  • QUOTE: Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

    Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

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