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"solution to government" means "solution to the problem of how organise society".
If "except for all the others" only includes those that have been tried, then I mostly agree. But if it includes all possible forms of social organisation, I strongly disagree. The idea that we've reached the best solution and it barely works is similar to the idea that we will never solve death. Either of those could be true, but there is not nearly evidence to stop us from trying.
The word "solution" has too much of engineering / hard sciences connotations for my liking.
Organising society is a process and the criteria of what can be considered a successful one are not stable on historic time scale unless you want to take the social darwinism approach.
You're right, "solution" has too much finality to it. How about "approach" as a replacement word that doesn't break the grammar above?
Sure, "approach" will work.