What is the purpose of Government?

In your opinion, what is the true purpose of government (in democratic/"free" societies)?

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Read the preamble to the US Constitution. It explains the foreseen government's purpose well.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of ...