Ok, so what defines if someone has real power over someone else? Is it whether or not some group of people recognizes that they do have authority/power over another? What makes a document official? Anyone can write anything on a piece of paper. What makes people recognize the government as having real power/authority over them (even if it exploits/terrorizes them)? I mean, physically a lareger group of people can easily overpower a smaller group so why do they listen to them? Its not like paper has some magical power that makes whatever is written in it come true... Or is it? What makes people follow the laws as they are written?