... organize both their lives and thoughts. At this point in history, a primitive concept of government emerged as a suitable solution; a person who is respected and elected by all members in the community, and who would also be responsible to judge and settle disputes that occurred between people under his jurisdiction. As the population mentioned above started to reproduce and grow in number, it became impossible for one single person to function efficiently as both the so-called government and the leader of this large and expanding community. Consequently, the leader started to appoint other compatible individuals who will eventually help him in fulfilling his complicated task, and that marked the origin of what we call today a governmental bureaucracy. Now that there is more than one person in power, a new basis for authority was required, which was also accompanied by new emerging and clashing self interests by the ...

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