1. A government is It's an institution, through which a society makes and enforces its public policies. Its purpose is to keep the nation safe and to provide a consequence for actions 2. State describes a legal entity whereas nation refers to races or large groups of people. 3. Under a dictatorship, one person or a small group of people take over a country and doesn?t give the people any rights or any say in what goes on in the government. This is different from a democracy because in a democracy, the people get a say in what happens in the government and are given rights. 4. A constitution helps a government to carry out its public policies by establishing things that the government can and cannot do. It makes it to