Thoughts on Capitalism

Capitalism is a system in which private or corporate wealth is used in the production and distribution of goods. This results in the private owners getting a profit. Capitalism started in the 17^th century. Right away the merchants were the same as the consumers and producers. Soon the merchants began to become more powerful. Waged workers were a big stage in the development of capitalism. The merchants began to trade and start to control the means of production. This created a new stage called primitive capitalists and they have more power over waged workers. Capitalism started the cottage industry, which was mini factories in homes and the production was controlled by capitalist. The population went through a violent conditioning process. The new capitalists needed to pressure production to get more for less. So they could make more on trading to increase their profits. As capitalism grew the feudal economic system lost its power and disappeared. Capitalist got the idea to make a factory owned by them for people to work at so they did not have to work in their cottage. With people now working in factories capitalist could pay them little to work. They could now also make shifts for people to work to get maximum productivity. The factory could now be running all the time having people change shifts. This lead to the capitalist able to make more product and increased profits. The making of factories led to the industrial revolution. During the industrial revolution the steam engine was made. The steam engine replaced workers. This save money for the capitalist, they no longer had to pay people to make things they now had machine that could also do it quicker. Now in modern day this has helped with countries communicating and trading.

John Adams Democracy Quote

John Adams said “Democracy ... while it lasts, is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” This quote that John Adams said is very true. Democracy is a government where the people are in control. When people are in control not everyone will agree on the same things. This leads to fighting and a lot of time wasted in trying to find a compromise that everyone can agree on rather than trying to fix other important problem. Even when a compromise is made there will still be people that are not happy with the results, but can not do anything about it once it is done. Monarchy is a government controlled by one or two people, which would be a king or a queen. Monarchy was the most common form of government before the 19^th century. People do not have any kind of say in a monarchy. Whatever the king or queen wants to do they can do it, and the people can argue all they want but it will never change. When the king or queen, makes a new law the people know they can not do anything about it, so they just deal with it and move on with their life. Aristocracy is a government where people in the highest class of society normally holding hereditary titles or offices have the most power in decisions. It is very close to monarchy other than there is a group that has power instead of a single person. There are hardly ever arguments that are heard of in a monarchy and aristocracy, but in a democracy there are always arguments that are going on. All of these types of governments have goods and bads about them. In a democracy, the government gets to hear what the views on a problem are by the people, which help them find a way to fix it. In aristocracy and monarchy the rulers get to choose what they want and the people do not get a choice in it. This could make the people angry and they could end up rebelling.

Bicameralism

The British Parliament was a bicameral government. The Americans in the colonies new the system of bicameralism well enough that all but two of the thirteen colonies started bicameralism. As years went on one of the two colonies that were unicameral changed to bicameral. The Framers were bicameral to solve conflict between plans. The states wanted equal voice in the congress and bicameralism takes after federalism. Federalism gave equal rights in the Senate and the House.

I think that it was a good thing that we have a bicameral government with the states being equally represented. So that the bigger states do not over power decision that will help or not help them. With having to houses it makes it unable for a single house to gain too much power and control over things.