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Old 08-09-2007, 12:10 PM   #60 (permalink)
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So, in your opinion, "order in society" is the ultimate good that a government should achieve?
Government also has the goal of establishing justice, and promoting the general welfare. However, injustice in society will eventually lead to chaos in the form of riots, so establishing justice can be said in the end to be maintaining order in society. The same can be said for promoting the general welfare. A quality education system is essential for maintaining our democratic way of life, so it can be said to be maintaining order.
The greatest danger to liberty lurks in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

--Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis