"A civil government, even a weak one, is anytime preferable to a strong military government. "Do you agree?

Governments are necessary; without governments there will only be chaos. This is why Thomas Paine says, "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil." Paine in his writings pleads for the rights of man; he knows that any government will have restrictions imposed on the citizens' exercise of absolute rights in the interest of order, harmony and peace in society. Even the best of governments will have to do this. Curbing the rights of man, according to Paine, is an evil. But since governments are a necessary evil, they should be tolerable ones. Paine is convinced that "in its worst state" government is "an intolerable one".

Which form of government is the most tolerable? In the modem world monarchies have practically ceased to exist, even in the states where the heads of states are monarchs. Great Britain has a monarch, but the monarch is only a figure-head, and the country is one of the strongest democracies in the world. Nepal, a state ruled by a monarch, has also a form of democratic government. Today people all over the world clamour for democracy; this is most pronounced in states that have been under single-party (mainly Communist) rule. The modem world sees in democracy the most tolerable form of government. This is because it knows that "no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

There are three basic types of government seen in the world today. These are the Western-style democracies, the people's democracies, and military dictatorships. The Western-style democracy may be called 'liberal democracy'; it is found throughout western Europe, in North America, Australia, New Zealand, India, Israel, etc. People's democracies are modelled on the former U.S.S.R. government, and constitute single-party rule. Under the people's democracy, the government is all-powerful and is a form of dictatorship. Military dictatorships - which are the worst form of government - have come into being in some of the Third World countries where the fragility of governments could not resist the might of the military craving for power.
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