The government that the FFs set up was very much an anarchist (self rule or self governing) government, IMHO, at least that was what some of the FFs hoped it would be. It was designed for very limited functions, mainly that of defense and arbitration (regulation of commerce inside the territory as its purview was probably a bad idea, and may have been put their as a fatal flaw, at least the way it was written). People were suppose to be left along to self govern (anarchy or cooperation), until there was a problem with one party waging war on another (or the perceived of such), which then the government was suppose to kick in its arbitration parties to mediate the dispute between the parties, if one of them (or its agent) brought the complaint against an act of war to the arbitration power. History is one big example of some people gone wild and waging war on others. Goat
Wendie Slovak wrote: > So do you think we always need some kinda of a government to protect > us? Or that we would all go wild or something if we had no government?
