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What holds a country together? Murdoch answers plainly: shared ideas, just laws, and citizens who choose to do right. Beginning with the ""social instinct"" that draws people into community, he explains government as society's tool-made, improved, and kept running by ordinary men and women. He distinguishes the legislature, judiciary, and executive; shows how local councils handle roads, health, and water; how the States steward wider responsibilities; and how the Commonwealth manages matters of ""common concern."" Throughout, examples and analogies make abstract terms vivid and practical. Readers finish with more than facts: they gain habits of attention, fair-mindedness, and public spirit-virtues that steady judgment, welcome responsibility, and turn love of country into everyday goodwill.

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