The definition of capitalism is, an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. The idea of capitalism is all well and good. I mean it provides freedom to private businesses, which really is the point of democracy, freedom to the people. Nobody wants the government to be in there business goofing with stuff and telling them what to do. We fought a war specifically to  end the control of government in business, yes referring to the Revolutionary War. However, capitalism allows the rich to get richer while making the poor poorer. When companies are allowed to outsource production to foreign countries while raising prices in their own counties it seems wrong. Capitalism allows companies to set ridiculous prices for goods. A fine example of this is cars, for some reason we are forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars for cars that are large chunks of plastic. Capitalism is the reason a man like Steve Jobs was allowed to back door his partners out of his company while jacking the prices of his products up so that people who wanted his product were required to pay out for his product. Despite all of this capitalism sometimes works because when companies are allowed to control themselves they can set their own prices. This allows for a competitive market, when some companies are jacking the prices of products up other companies can set lower prices to compete and drive prices down.
Socialism could be a good idea, government controlling the way businesses work. This doesn't sound right to most people. After all the definition of socialism is  a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. This simply means everyone in business is the same with the same profits and the same pay outs. However this means when certain parts start to fail all parts would begin failing. Also I do not believe the government should have control in any part of our lives. We are a free people that shouldn't be told how to live our lives based on what a government says.
It all boils down to greed. Capitalism would work if people weren't greedy. The reason capitalism gets a bad name is that the greedy do whatever it takes to make a profit because no one can tell them not to. Socialism is a bad idea because it takes away peoples freedoms. If a middle could be found where the greedy weren't able to take advantage of the system and the government weren't controlling business it would be almost perfect. However, something like this could not happen so in my opinion capitalism is better because I despise to much government control. 

Democracy

     

There isn't really a true democracy. Democracy Is defined as the entire population or those eligible governing themselves. America isn't really a democracy, rather more of a republic that is ruled by senators and representatives that make decisions. At one point in time America may have been a democracy where senators and representatives listened to the people of their country and voted accordingly. However the evils of greed and capitalism have taken over and these congress members can be easily bought and corrupted. Capitalism, that tends to be the big problem, when you tell rich people that they can do whatever they want to make more money they will go as far as buying the government to lean in their favor. Ours is not a fair system where every person has a chance but rather it is a system of rich people telling middle class people to blame the poor people.
“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 by John Adams hold true to America’s so called democracy. It started a s a good thing that allowed capitalism and equality. However when you tell a population of people that they all have an equal opinion, everyone is going to want to be right. Political parties turn into parties that are based on the self-interests of people instead of being governing parties that will support the original constitution. This poses a problem, for example, when a political party like the Republicans hold the control the population can expect to see laws and regulations that benefit the rich people and Christianity.  This being the point, democracy can’t work because you can not please all of the people all the time. Someone will be treated unfairly and someone is going to be excluded.  Monarchies work because people know they have to listen. In a monarchy such as Great Britain there is a queen and a parliament. This works because the people of the U.K. know that they have to do what is decided by parliament and the queen. This being said the people can still make their voices heard and influence the parliament with their opinions, but at the end of the day the people still have to shut up and follow the rules.

Bicameral Government of The Colonies

                The Colonies had won the Revolutionary War, now they needed to set up an government. It was decided that a bicameral government would be used. This decision was made based on three reasons. The first reason being that it was simply what they were familiar with. The Colonies liked the idea the British had of two houses that kept each other in check. They already knew this system of government worked so they went with it.

                The second reason was that it worked as a compromise. Larger states wanted more pull in government while smaller states thought that they should get just as much say. By making the government bicameral every state would be able to be represented equally. Larger states had pull in government based on the fact that they had a larger population while less populated states still had a say in the government.

                The third reason was the theoretical stand point of the idea. If you give one person or on part of government more control then that party would have total rule over the government. Remembering the tyranny of a king it made the most sense that the states had a sort of watch dog system. By having a bicameral government the two parts of government will keep each other in check not letting one part gain more control than the other.