The Great Depression was caused by a failure of the free market and was resolved by government intervention. MYTH

The free market fell because the government intervened too much. When the government intervened to help fix the problems it created even bigger problems. In the free market was affected when the taxes and interest rates went down so many went in to debt and then the rates and taxes went up causing the people not to have money. The stock market was running on borrowed money and the interest going up so no one could borrow money. So people went selling stocks and the price continually dropping. The government was also getting rid of the gold standard so the worth of the dollar had decreased so much and so the cost of everything cost so much.

The employment rate was so low the government had created jobs for people across the country, which helped slightly. The government had underestimated the impact of playing with the free market would do to the economy. The jobs the government provided were jobs that were paid for by charities because poor Hoover did not want to use government money to help the people got on their feet.

Another poor decision that the government made was to make bank units because when one of the banks in the unit went bankrupt so do the others. This bank failure had cast citizens their life savings because no insurance was on the money of the people and because the banks had loaned all the money and were not repaid the went under.

charter city essay

If I were to create my own city there would many beautiful scenes, many opportunities to be creative and create something worth creating. This city would be named after the nearest mountain. The citizens would have the right of property; would be able to participate in free trade, and participate in markets; and they would be able to have the privilege of having the freedom of the press. Being in authority I would allow the citizens these rights and the privileges to create economic growth in the community.

Allowing the citizens to have the right of property would be the most important “key institution to the establishment of a free market economy.”(Johnson, Ryan) The right of property is a key part because by allowing the people have the opportunity to own whatever they wanted would lead to the other key institutions. Having the right of property allows the people to pursue happiness, whatever they may find to make them happy. By allowing men to own things allows them to have agency to have each spend or use their property as their heart may desire. By having the right to property allows men to work in self interest, by working in self interest allows many different types of companies and employments come alive.

When the right of property is respected it allows a free market and trade to form. The citizens myown that property they have the ability to trade the object with a service or another object in return. By allowing people to work for property allows them to spend the property on whatever they desire, whether they desire to spend their property on food or on useless object, or to create some new technology where they would be able to earn more property and improve the wellbeing of others.

By allowing all men and women the right to property would also allow them to form a newspaper or another form of news on any media. By allowing a freedom of press allows individuals to use their property and resources to act in self interest. Allowing individuals to act in self interest may form a form of news. A freedom of press allows all individual can see what others self interest has influenced them to do. Through freedom of press many act in self interest by filling the news what they and the community have interest in.

In a community that wishes to have a free market economy the key institutions would be to allow all people the right to property, free trade and market, and to allow freedom of press. By allowing these institutions it has given men the resources to pursue happiness by acting in self interest. In acting in self interest thousands of people would help create something very simple like a pencil and many other things around the world and the community.

essay #3

James Madison once said, “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” What Madison is saying is that for government of men that governs men the men in the government must govern themselves first. To be able to have the government govern themselves there must be primary control and auxiliary precautions.

The primary control that Madison refers to in the federalist 51 is what step or principle that needs to be followed. The primary control is the principal responsibility for allowing the American government to rule within the rules of the constitution. By confining the government to rule within the principals of the constitution it protects the liberty of the American people. There are many auxiliary precautions that Madison refers to: a written constitution, division of powers, checks and balances, and separation of powers.

One of the auxiliary precautions is having a written constitution. The written constitution was written to limit the power of the government. Written constitution had got rid of the constant arguments between states and government officials. The written constitution is an auxiliary precaution because it gives guidelines to each part of government.

An additional auxiliary precaution is having a division of powers. When the government has a division of powers it means that the national government has certain powers that pertain only to the national government and the state government has different certain powers that pertain only to the state government. In the constitution is says that “[Congress shall have power to] to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.” This is the power of which congress has the power to do. The state government has many more types of thing that is has power over that are mentioned in the supremacy clause.

Auxiliary precautions would also contain check and balances. Checks and balances are built into the system of the government. For example in the house of legislature there is the Senate and the House of Representatives, these two pieces of the legislature allow check and balance and the executive and the legislature and checks and balances to each other also. Checks and balances is a force against corruption within our government.

An additional auxiliary precaution is to have separation of powers. Allowing the state government to have different powers the the federal or national government. The constitution states in article 1: “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States. . . .”. This part of the constitution portrays the role of congress. In the constitution it also mentions the restrictions of the powers of congress. The congress cannot tax things exported from certain states, and that any man within the government claim any title of nobility. The separation of powers is an auxiliary precaution because it doesn’t allow a oligarchy it allows more people to run the country rather than a few.

The constitution was an inspired document

There are many ideas in the constitution that are inspired
by God. One of which is the idea of separation and division of powers. The
separation of powers was an inspired idea in that it allows religious freedom
but within the separation of powers you have check in balance because the power
is dispersed between a wide arrange of people to have the opinion of the
people. Through division of powers the branches of government has a pattern of
check in balances and not allowing one man to have too much power.

Another inspired idea was that of a written bill of
rights, giving the government a specific list of don’t that can protect the
people. By writing the bill of rights allows the people to govern rather than a
government that governs the people. Elder Oaks states, “Without the free
exercise of religion, America could not have served as the host nation for the
restoration of the gospel, which began just three decades after the Bill of
Rights was ratified.” The Bill of Rights limited the government to allow the
restoration of the gospel and this is one reason why the Constitution was
inspired.

“Perhaps the most important of the great
fundamentals of the inspired Constitution is the principle of popular
sovereignty: the people are the source of government power.” (Elder Oaks). Popular
sovereignty, the voice of the people, is very much needed in country where the
people are to govern. Popular sovereignty has allowed that man are each
accountable for their actions. “We [the people] are superior to government and
should remain master over it, not the other way around”( President Benson). And
finally the rule of law and not the rule of men that is truly inspired of God allowing
the people to govern and allowing those with the power above the law.

The constitution is inspired by God because he had
prepared the founding fathers to be God fearing men. Allowing the founding
fathers to have inspiration to prepare this country for all of its fate is
truly inspired of God. The ideas in the constitution; separation and division
of powers, popular sovereignty, and the bill of rights, are truly ideas that
are inspired of God. The reason for the inspired document is to prepare the
great nation of its calling.

Essay #1

Samuel
Adams grandparents sailed across the ocean to gain freedom from the crown in
England. Samuel Adam’s father lived and
saw the fight to allow these to be in the colonies and Samuel Adam is prepared
to let the citizens know what is really going on, so that the colonies can have
real freedom from the crown.

While
King George II was in reign a writ of assistance was passed allowing the police
to search for any merchandise that was brought to the colonies illegally. Because the search warrants did not have a
termination date and were not specific on what they were looking for and who’s
stuff they were to search. Samuel Adams
thought that the writ of assistance against their natural rights because it
violated mans liberty to have police search through their property, King George III had kept the writ of
assistance which continued to violate every “English [and every] mans”
rights.

While
England had just lost the French and Indian war King George III had sent for
taxes from the colonist so he could pay of his debts. Great Britain had placed
the sugar act which placed an indirect tax on sugar, tea, indigo, wines,
textiles, and coffee. The sugar act had
an effect on the colonist to the extent that the price of everything had gone
up in value and that the merchants were the most greatly affected. The sugar act had increased the prices of item made of sugar, wine, molasses, indigo,
textiles, and coffee creating a high economy for the early colonists. While
boycotting the items that were affected by the sugar act was nearly impossible
because of the need of the items in everyday life, however Samuel Adams showed
the people through petitions and through pamphlets exactly what Great Britain
was doing.

Continually
needing more money King George III had sent another act to the colonists, the
Stamp Act. The Stamp Act was an act that
“all legal papers, commercial papers, liquor licenses, land instruments,
indentures, cards, dice, pamphlets, newspapers, advertisements, almanacs,
academic degrees, and appointments to office “ had to be stamped to official
and not illegal. For the colonist to
rebel and boycott the stamp act the colonist found those who volunteered to be
a stamp man and threaten them so they wouldn’t show up. This act was not long lived. Those who knew what was going on had threatened
the stamp collectors not allowing the stamps to be used the first day causing
the businesses continue on illegally. This act is the first of its kind it
breaks regular custom, because the stamp act was the first that was a direct
tax. The money that was collected from this tax went directly to the British treasury;
the money would be used for problems that happened in America. The stamp act had continued to push the
colonist to wanting freedom because they were abusing the colonist
property. Britain had seen the effect of
the boycott and rebellion and they repealed the act, however the same day that
the stamp act was repealed the Declaratory Act was put into place. The Declaratory act was created with very
intense language. Part of the
Declaratory Act states that: "that the King’s majesty, by and with the
advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons of Great
Britain, in parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have,
full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and
validity to bind the colonies… in all cases whatsoever." The declaratory
act was violating the natural right of liberty and property and is an action by
Great Britain that would be a justifiable reason for revolting and
rebellion.

Another
act was passed by the crown called the quartering act. The Quartering Act was an act where Great
Britain sent over her troops to watch on the colonists. It was a requirement for all the colonist
that housed officers and soldiers would have to provide a furnished living
facility with food, light, and utensils without being paid for the
services. The Quartering Act violated
the natural right of liberty and of property because the poor colonist would
spend money on the soldiers and officers to not be paid back in return. The Quartering Act violates the natural
right of property because giving up what you have to support someone with
opposite ideas as you then not getting paid in return a complete violation of
right to property.

Many
of the founding fathers had reason for revolting and for filing for
independence. These men had reasons such
as violating the laws od natural rights Declaratory act saying that the parliament
could make any laws that wanted toward the colonist to benefit the
colonist. All these acts from Great Britain
had given the colonist the right to rebel because of the violation of their rights.
The colonist had rebelled legally by sending petitions and letters, then civil disobediences,
and then full out rebellion.

Even
though Great Britain did inhumane things to those in the colonies they helped
move the colonists to where they needed to be to rebel and to make a stand for
freedom and the push to create their own government and to break away from
Great Britain. In Ezra Taft Bensons talk
Ezra Taft Benson states “[that] freedom-loving men owe a debt of gratitude to
Great Britain and those human instruments who provided that first flicker of
‘freedom's holy light’ to future generations, [we are truly indebted]”.