In fact, I'm for shrinking the size of government. I want a smaller and smarter government. I have been in charge of this reinventing government streamlining project that's reduced the size of government by more than 300,000 people in the last several years.
Nobody knows who formed the first government or whether it was a success but governments have existed for thousands of years.
( z1 contrast :ARG1 ( z2 know :ARG0 ( z3 nobody ) :ARG1 ( z4 or :op ( z5 person :ARG0-of ( z6 form :ARG1 ( z7 government-organization :ARG0-of ( z8 govern ) :ord ( z9 ordinal-entity :value 1 ) ) ) ) :op ( z10 truth-value :polarity-of ( z11 succeed :ARG1 z7 ) ) ) ) )