Best System of Government

What is the purpose of government and what would be the best form for it to function?

Government is made to improve the lives of the governed and to harness their energy collectively as one being. Thus the state's purpose is twofold, first to improve the lives of the people that comprise it and second to preserve its existence into the future. As men are animals at heart, society has deemed it necessary to use force in some circumstances to preserve order. This must be balanced with the inalienable rights that cannot, and should not be taken by force. But, as the purpose of the state is twofold, some people lose rights they should not lose, they become less than people. The ideal state, on the contrary, would leave no such people behind, as is for instance obligated by our constitution through minority rights. Essentially the best way for a society to function is to balance the necessity of the state's existence with the necessity of the individual's existence. A government accomplishes this goal through the values and ideals of its people and to a great degree the structure from which it is constructed. The ideals of Democracy are to let people decide who will run the country and give input into how it will be run. Values are how these ideals come about, but also the structure shapes these ideals. For instance, in a conversation with my father, it became apparent that a Dictatorship cannot promote the same values a Democracy does. The reason for this is a dictator must be highly ambitious to become dictator (much more than one should argue for president) and also must fight others who would like that power on unpeaceful terms. In that way the structure of government allows either for a peaceful or violent overthrow of a government. For a Dictatorship power must come at the expense of life, whereas in a Democracy power is shifted on a consistent, peaceful basis. There may be other forms of government better than Democracy, nonetheless I will argue for some fixes that may improve our current system to be better than it is--that is I'll use that structure as a basis and give suggestions to improve it. A Democracy's best form comes about when everybody gets an equal say in what this country does, including the people who run it (they should weigh other's opinions just as highly as their own). Ideally a Democracy would have a council of people to head the state. People to decree, administer, and enforce laws and regulations. They would have to be accountable to values and morality in some manner or another. Ideally they would be unpaid except by the cost of living. One thing a Democracy could do is not hold regular elections, but rather hold state, local, and federal elections only when people have decided they want to change who is in charge (maybe with some sort of minimum and maximum term limit)--in other words lawmen would be appointed for indefinite terms with some minimum time to serve only to be revoked by a majority of voters or at the end of their allotted term, who would then vote on candidates other than the current serving or vacated seat. The biggest change would be to change the two party system to one where candidates run on the issues they care about and their character that they will get those things done. This is already what is supposed to happen, but you know all too well politicians that put party politics ahead of our nation. It would be wiser to replace the two party system with a multiparty system instead of removing parties completely; but that would require eliminating a winner take all system and for the constituency to heed politics and become informed with reasoned opinions and reasoned reasons. If one believes democracy is the best system of government, then they must believe the animal, both above and below, work better when each smaller animal gets an equal voice on the workings of the larger animal as a whole.