GOVERNMENT AND THE CITIZEN very INTRODUCTION WHY WE HAVE GOVERNMENTS needs and how they are 1. Personal Needs. Human needs are so various Personal that no individual supplies himself with more than a few of the things necessary to his existence and satisfied. comfort. In all probability, no one of the articles of clothing that he wears was made with his own hands, and little of the food that he eats was grown by himself. He lives in a house which another man built, a second painted, and a third provided with plumbing. His carpets probably came from one state, his furniture from another, and his pictures from a third. He does not obtain his newspaper, his periodicals, and his books from the same source. The needs that he has every day have been supplied by the exertions of a multitude of workers, many of whom live in foreign lands. But these articles which we have mentioned, essential though they are to his continued existence, do not come to him for the asking. He can obtain them only by exchanging for them some of the money which he has in his possession, or which he is earning day by day. Because these articles satisfy personal needs, and because they B |