Societies need the type of government that has a structure that serves the people's interests to enhance their welfare, provide protection and justice where needed, and support the general public's unalienable rights. That is the ideal of what government should represent, and it also needs to be recognized that even the best of governments can only do so much without the buy-in and effort of its own citizens, for without such, the end result will not be very good.
So then, our government must have the power to conduct its business on behalf of its citizens in a way and manner that it does not intrude upon their personal rights of the people and also prudently limits its surveillance of the people, thus permitting the people the right to their expression of opinion, and of movement, which basically represents the government leaving well enough alone, in the recognition that adults are entitled to conduct their business in a manner that they prefer as long as they do not infringe upon the unalienable rights of others. This thus signifies that the public space permits differences of opinion, written and verbal, as opposed to imposing that there is only one orthodox voice that must be adhered to and obeyed.
It is never an easy task in the running of a government, especially when it has been determined that too much power in the hands of one individual, or one entity, thereby necessitates appropriate checks and balances, in addition to the fact that the voice of the people should not be silenced, so that all of these things must balance out, which is why a government with too much power is a most dangerous master, and consequently will be a poor servant to the people.
At the same time, a weak government that nobody respects or pays attention to will not have the appropriate authority to achieve much of anything, which leads to a lack of order, and when the people are aware that anything goes, those who have a corrupt moral compass are going to create the type of trouble that, if not dealt with forthrightly, is going to be quite bad for society.
In all of these things, it thus signifies that first the governing document of the country must consist of a well-written Constitution which stipulates the rights of the people, and in conjunction with that it also contains the limits of its governance. Further to the point, the government needs power enough to enforce the legislative laws as written without ever crossing the line into tyranny, which is a difficult act to adeptly accomplish, but accomplish it must, because the best government is that which is of, by, and for the people, in which those people have had not just their fair say, but that have also elected representatives that will do right by them, and finally that governance will live by the motto that its prime objective is to ensure equal justice, to promote the good of the people, and to uphold the right of the people to liberty and to their pursuit of what satisfies them.