Omg! Please..help me. How to interpret this? Please.?

Question

This American government,-what is but a tradition though a recent one, endevoring to trasmit itself unimpared to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the nitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. But it is not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. Governments show this how sucesssfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out its way. it does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished.

What does this mean? It's a paragraph in Civil Disobedience.

and it would have done somewhat more, if the government has not sometimes got in its way. For government is an experdient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as had been said, when it is most expedient, the governed are most let alone by it. Trace and commerce if they were not made of India-rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legistators are continually putting in their way; and, if one were to judge thse men wholly by the effects of their actions and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished which those mischevious persons who put obstructions in the railroads.

Answer 1

If your are not a politician then maybe you should consider running for an office because you are talking in circles just like Bush

Answer 2

Civil disobedience
"Deliberate, open, and peaceful violation of particular laws, decrees, regulations, military or police orders, or other governmental directives. The command may be disobeyed because it is seen as itself illegitimate or immoral, or because it is a symbol of other policies which are opposed. Civil disobedience may be practiced by individuals, groups, or masses of people."

(Where did you get this interpretation?)
I am aassuming that you typed it but there appear to be some errors in spelling; actually it is replete with errors..

Leastwise, the above is a definition of sorts. I am ssuming that this is a representation of civil disobedience by SOMEONE.
But it appears more to address the American government, which has lost some of its integrity...that the American government has bent or imposed its will on the people it governs, but that the people must have some outlet to free itself - by civil disobedience if necessary.,
That is all I get out of it.
The last few sentences make no sense with respect to other parts of the writing.Perhaps they are just misplaced within the entire writing itself.
Good luck.

Answer 3

Well there is alot of poor grammar in that however...

addressing the last part of it... it is saying that enterprise ( the entrepeneurial endeavors of the individual and the corporation ) succeeding not do to efforts of or by the government but because of the individual and their efforts.
It says basically that the betterment of society in education, defense, and capitalism were successful because of us individuals...

The government didnt make this a great society.. people did.
Thats what its saying.

Answer 4

that is way too much reading!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!