Government businesses are public and the government supplies the goods/sevaces that anyone can bye while private businesses the producer provides the goods/sevaces and not everyone can buy or use them.
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Im not sure if this helps but when i looked it up i got The Advent of law, prerequisites and implications. Laws that were created by Hammurabi of Bablonian in the mid century 18th century and placed on stone tablets for all to see.
They crossed the border to help fight.