Governments are Institutional 'functions'.

A government is an institutional function and a function has a particular purpose for having been established. Some functions 'work'; some do not. Obviously, if an institutional 'function' does not perform along the lines for which it was established, the institution can and should be changed. The issue always becomes, "for what was it established" and "once established, is it performing its duties?" Of course, some governments were established by 'conquest', some by 'force', and some by 'fraud'. The 'divine' type no longer functions. The fraudulent type is not so easy to detect. The others are easier to detect. In those easy cases the issue becomes one for the People being governed. Its up to them and to the conditions in which they exist. In the fraudulent type, the alleged fraud has to be 'detected' and, in all fairness, be pointed out. That is the difficulty and requires lots of elaboration. The main difficulty in detecting 'fraud' is that 'politics' is usually engaged in by individuals who do not have the "Peoples welfare" in mind; instead their service is 'self-serving', 'party-loyal' and for the 'wrong reasons'. Many are not motivated by a 'democratic value'; instead, they are motivated by 'personal' and, by 'economic values'. They resort to the principles of the economy instead of the principles of democracy and, instead of implementing the 'unwritten rules' of 'statesmen-ship', they resort to the rules of 'advertising'. Economic advertising tries to cram down our throats, whatever articles, products, they wish to sell. The goal is to sell and to sell more and more and to reap a profit. That's the motor of the economy. The motor of democracy requires that governments understand that they function only to protect the Freedom and Equality of all Peoples, in their 'condition of togetherness'. Government is "for all the People"; not just a select few.