A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion — an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the exploitation — in the form of expropriation, taxation and regulation — of private property owners. Assuming no more than self-interest on the part of government agents, all governments must be expected to make use of this monopoly and thus exhibiting a tendency toward increased exploitation. However, not every form of government can be expected to be equally successful in this endeavor or to go about it in the same way. Rather, in light of elementary economic theory, the conduct of government and the effects of government policy on civil society can be expected to be systematically different, depending on whether the government apparatus is owned privately or publicly.
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Any rules other than natural laws prove that you have rulers. Whoever made the rules and those who enforce them are the rulers. Natural laws come from God. God is our only rightful ruler. Sadly most people have been indoctrinated to think otherwise and this makes them voluntary servants. They are slaves by choice. Since the vast overwhelming people have been programmed into this belief we who know better are still forced to fall in step.