Exactly. Inanimate objects, like rocks, guns and governments are tools, absent of moral quality, and incapable of right or wrong in and of themselves. Human interaction with their moral quality define the morality of the use of the object. Governments don’t need rights. They have power over man, like a gun. Ayn Rand went into a long dissertation on the government use of “force on man”, and I wish I had the link to it. She did the subject justice in ways I can only dream.
Looks like we’ve got the same thought, but your presentation of it is better than mine. I’ll have to work on that.