The ability to force someone else to do what you want them to do.

All of your items are a step or two above that level. They are why specific laws get passed.

But to enforce those laws, particularly with people who may be opposed to those laws, you need force.

Think back to the WTO riots in Seattle. The cops decided which areas people were not to be allowed in and then they started marching through non-rioting areas.

Even more recently, Fat Tuesday in Seattle, I was down in Pioneer Square (party central), getting a tattoo worked on and the cops, on horseback, were moving people from one area to another. If you didn't want to move, you were arrested. If you talked back to the cop, you were arrested. A lot of people just gave up on the parties and went home.

Yet the people weren't breaking any laws.

And the cops were outfitted with gas masks.