The first is "fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people".
China's human rights community is the frequent object of government surveillance and oppression.
Instead, the more he pokes into the son's disappearance, the more Ben becomes the object of government warnings, scrutiny, and, finally, violence.
All are potentially the object of government interference in the form of regulation, higher taxes, limits on their ability to raise prices, higher capital requirements (for the banks) or outright nationalisation (mining and oil companies in developing countries).
A spokesman for the GMB union said: "If the main object of government policy is to bring the prison population into the workforce instead of rehabilitation, we would be strongly against it.
"The legitimate object of government," he was later to say, "is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot do so well, for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities".
As Abraham Lincoln said so well, "The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves in their separate, and individual capacities".
It was another Republican, Teddy Roosevelt, who said, "the object of government is the welfare of the people".
"The legitimate object of Government is to do for a community of people whatever they need done but cannot do at all or cannot do so well for themselves in their separate and individual capacities".
These programs are all free and easy to install and use, and even if you don't worry about your own communications being the object of government interest, by using them you ensure that the mere fact of encryption won't make it easy for NSA to flag messages of activists and privacy hawks, and send a stronger message to the NSA than the passage of the Freedom Act ever could.
With the advent of the Marxist conception of the state, the ends of human existence once again became the objects of comprehensive government regulation.
