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The Necessity of Government (1956-12-30)
About this film
Discusses opposing views concerning the necessity of government, and illustrates why some form of government is essential for the common good of the group. Explains the two general types of government-leader centered and majority rule. Points out the danger of the two extremes of government-anarchy with unlimited individual rights or a powerful government with no individual rights. (Description from NET Film Service Catalog 1960)
Directors & creators
KGO-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Government, Political Philosophy, Anarchism, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Philosophical Anarchism, Great Ideas, Law, Society, Individualism, Human Nature, Self-governance, Limited Government, Mortimer J. Adler, Political Theory, Civil Society, Governance, Ethics, American History, Native Americans, Freedom, Liberty, Civilization, State of Nature, Social Order
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