Kyle Slipy

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Government is that or­ga­ni­za­tion in so­ci­ety which at­tempts to main­tain a mo­nop­oly of the use of force and vi­o­lence in a given ter­ri­to­r­ial area; in par­tic­u­lar, it is the only or­ga­ni­za­tion in so­ci­ety that ob­tains its rev­enue not by vol­un­tary con­tri­bu­tion or pay­ment for ser­vices ren­dered but by co­er­cion. While other in­di­vid­u­als or in­sti­tu­tions ob­tain their in­come by pro­duc­tion of goods and ser­vices and by the peace­ful and vol­un­tary sale of these goods and ser­vices to oth­ers, the government ob­tains its rev­enue by the use of com­pul­sion; that is, by the use and the threat of the jail­house.

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