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After reading this article you will learn about the functions of government and rights of persons. It is easy, and perhaps even natural, to oppose the functions and powers of government to the rights and liberties of per­sons, as if they were mutually exclusive and each of them began at the point where the other ended. They may, indeed, be [...]

After reading this article you will learn about the functions of government and their organs. The word 'function', in its political application, may be said to have two senses. It has the sense of purpose or aim, as when we say that the function of government is the maintenance of a scheme of law, or the service of rights, or [...]