Who are ........THE GOVERNMENT/?

Question

Who are THE GOVERNMENT??????????????????? When people say, It's the responcibility of THE GOVERNMENT, who are they pointing the finger at?

Answer 1

It depends what country those people are in.  In the United States, they mean the elected officials, whether on a municipal, state, or federal level depending on the issue.

A government is

"the organization, that is the governing authority of a political unit,"

"the ruling power in a political society,"

and the apparatus through which a governing body functions and exercises authority.

Government, has the authority to make laws, to adjudicate disputes, and to issue administrative decisions.

In a dictatorship, the government is the individual running the country.

In a Theocracy, government is the religious leaders