A Tale of Two Countries

In the Post-Enlightenment Age, Westerners have come to understand government to have two primordial functions: 1) provide a fair and unbiased judicial system, and 2) protect and defend the country from invasion. Whatever other functions are granted to a governing body, these two are the raison d’être for creating the government in the first place.

The word “invasion” stems from the Latin intrudere, meaning “to thrust in, force in,” with the clear implication of an outside entity applying force t...