Umm... No.
Check your dictionary, it might be defective.
I don’t need to check a dictionary, I just have to look at what you said:
“I believe that governments were instituted of God for the benefit of man; and that he holds men accountable for their acts in relation to them, both in making laws and administering them, for the good and safety of society.”
What do you call a government “instituted of God?”
Actually, I agree with almost every point you make about government, because they are based on principles which are all objectively true. None of them require a belief in God.
I believe with Madison, that religion needs to be carefully separated from politics. (My two quotes were both by Madison who, as you pointed out, is called the father of the Constitution, and for good reason—he wrote every blessed word of it.)
There is only one serious point of disagreement I have with what you wrote. After carefully showing that no government has a right to do anything, individual’s themselves do not have a right to do, you write as one of the things for which a government may deprive an individual of either life, liberty, or property:
“Compel each one who enjoys the protection of government to bear his fair share of the burden of performing the above functions.”
So do you really believe if I and some of my friends take it upon ourselves to start patrolling the neighborhood in which you live, to prevent crime of course, we can then force you to pay for that service that you never asked for, and also be the ones that decides what your fair share is? Or would you consider that a kind of theft, maybe even a protection racket.
Since no individual has a right to force other people to pay for a service they not only never asked for, but might very well prefer not to have, how can they allocate that power to the government? They can’t of course.
When gangsters do that it called a racket or a crime. But those same gangsters write up what they are doing on a piece of paper and call it a constitution and call themselves the government, those same gangsters are called Congressmen, Senators, Judges, and President.
Taxes, plain and simple, are extortion. It’s one of many flaws in the Constitution, but perhaps the most immoral one.
Hank