Should government's job be to actively protect citizens and their rights, or should the focus rather be to leave citizens largely as free and unbothered as possible?

The government's job should be to actively protect citizens and their rights because that is the reason why first and foremost, they are elected in their respective seats. It is therefore not right to leave citizens largely as free and unbothered as possible however everyone has a responsibility on their own

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.