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>I would argue that when you give a subset of a population an institutionalized monopoly on the user of force, you're always going to get bad government eventually.

Why?

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The balance of power allows government officials to control those outside of government.

Those outside of government have control over government officials as well. Besides it doesn't really answer the question.

Because those in control are inevitably going to become corrupt and use their power to advance their own personal agendas.

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