I agree we need to severely limit governmental power. See we agree. ;)Yeah, yeah. ;-) I can see you're a smart fellow: why the fixation with government? There's going to be one in any organized society and they have to exert power over the citizenry who vote for them, so unless you've got a real-life better example in mind, IMHO it's best to park such concerns and worry about something we can actually do something about. JMHO.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
