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.

Is the United States Government Corrupt?

I pose these questions to anybody who may read them.
Is government still an instrument for good or is it about every man for himself?
Is there something good we want to reach for or is self-interest our basic instinct now?
Is it the people's government or the government's people?

The Truth of Democracy Amendment

The 28^th Amendment

Section 1 – Congress will no longer have the ability to pass laws. From here on out congress will only have the power to propose a law or bill to be voted on by the people. Furthermore the president will no longer have the power of executive order. Any law, regulation, or amendment must be voted on by the people of the United States of America. Exceptions to this are in times of war the president has the power to make decisions whether or not to go to war. There must be a valid threat or instigation against the United States for the president to initiate war.

Section 2- Any person running for president must have a minimum of 4 years military service or if less time was spent in the service they must have reached the rank of officer. Any person that is part of congress must either have had JROTC experience, or ROTC experience, or AROTC experience, or be a member of the National Guard, or Air Guard. 

Prohibition and Her Amendments

18^th Amendment

• Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
• Section 2. The Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
• Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the states by the Congress.

• Summary- Alcohol shall be for manufacture, sale, transportation, and consumption. Alcohol is prohibited in all states and territories. State governments still have the power whether or not to pass the article.

• Prohibition- the outlaw of the manufacture, sale, transportation, and consumption of liquor.
• The amendment became law January 17^th, 1920.
• The amendment was created because of a large push by groups like the Anti-Saloon League who blamed alcohol for everything wrong with the country and its people.
• Although the  amendment has been abolished there are still places like Lynchburg, TN that are dry towns, this also happens to be where Jack Daniels is produced.

21^st Amendment

• Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
• Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
• Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.

• The 21^st amendment repeals the 18^th amendment. It abolishes prohibition and allows alcohol to be manufactured, sold, transported, and consumed. The state governments were still given the vote to pass the amendment.
• The amendment was created because there was a huge outcry from the American people that they wanted booze. It was also created to try to stop the illegal trade of bootlegging.
• Current issues with this amendment is that the production of alcohol without certain licensing is still illegal.

Freedom and Firearms

                People kill people, people also kill animals. People use guns to kill, guns aren’t the only thing that kill people. Knives, fire, poison, and even vending machines. The thought of outlawing guns because they “kill people” is foolish, if you use that principle then it’s like saying you think scorpions tails should be outlawed. The tail did it not the scorpion, he had no intention at all of stinging me it was all his tail. If I laid a gun on the table and told it to go kill someone do you know what it would do? Nothing, because guns don’t kill people, people kill people.

                In 1996, a gunman killed 35 people and wounded 18 more in Port Arthur, Australia. Twelve days after the massacre Australia banned guns and instigated a buy back. More than 1/3 of Australia’s guns were handed back into the government and it was found that about 90% of Australians approved of their stricter gun laws. This means that the Australian government said “No more guns”. The Australian people said “O.K. alright seems fair mate.” Mass shootings happen in the United States and the government says “Maybe we just ban the really big guns”. Half of Americans said “Alright, yeah seems fair.” And the other 50% went “screw you don’t take my guns!” Now I don’t necessarily believe we need a complete ban on guns but I do believe that sale laws need to be restricted to sporting fire arms and self-defense weapons. There is no need for assault weapons.  One thing that does bother me is these people that run around saying you can’t take my guns it’s my second amendment right, which is true, but then they turn around and say they believe we need to demilitarize the police force. Seriously, it’s like we want to just make it easy on criminals and street crime. It would be like telling a wheelchair basketball team to take on the Miami Heat. Either their needs to be a balance in the guns between the government and the people or there needs to be no guns.

                The 2^nd amendment was not part of the original constitution that’s why it’s called an amendment. I’m tired of people talking about it like it is a law of nature that never goes away. Amendments get repealed and added it happens and it can happen. What people seem to not understand is that when this amendment was passed they were still using muskets. Yeah it sounds like a great idea for the people to own guns because the likeliness of them even being able to kill each other is pretty low. Now a days we have much more effective and precise killing machines. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing I’m just saying that things have changed we live in a different world now, it’s time to at least revise the amendment. The second amendment guarantees  the right to “A well regulated militia” great that’s fine we have the national guard, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” note the word right, you have the right to doesn’t mean you should. I know plenty of people who have the right to own a gun but the definitely shouldn’t. This amendment needs to stay but it needs to be revised for a better clearer understanding.

                 http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2014/09/22/2nd-amendment-original-meaning-and-purpose/

http://billofrightsinstitute.org/resources/educator-resources/americapedia/americapedia-bill-of-rights/second-amendment/