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Ideally? None.
You prefer anarchy? Why?
Remember the word "ideally." Ideally, everyone is responsible enough to take care of themselves. What is government for? To protect the weak. What is law for? To punish criminals who cannot abide society's rules.
Ideally, if everyone acts responsibly, and accepts the responsibility of their actions, government is not necessary. It exists to tax us to perpetuate itself.
However, that is not the case where the US is concerned. The weak have legislated the strong out of power. Their idealism isn't reality-based. Look at Obama ... kissin' ass to the Middle East and they're just flipping him off.
The people that the strong protected, who ungratefully pushed them aside, have doomed themselves, and us, to a slow, painful death.
Maybe, just maybe, the federal governments job is just to: provide for the common defense (national security); the preservation of public peace, as well against internal convulsions as external attacks; the regulation of commerce with other nations and between states; and finally the superintendent of our intercourse, political and commercial, with foreign countries (foreign affairs), as described by Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist Paper No.23, 1787.
Remember Hamilton was a founding father with the most important interpretation of the Constitution, and his view of the purpose of the federal government should be a good one for any new government, just as it was when our constitution was adopted.
Never mind that our federal government, today, has ignored the very reason it was established, and has taken on a completely new role as the protection of us from ourselves, and directing our everyday life.