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Under Chandragupta's rule, government controlled the people for the betterment of the government and its ruler. Under Ashoka's rule, the government provided a better life for its people through better conditions and peace.
Smith argued that by giving everyone freedom to produce and exchange goods as they pleased (free trade) and opening the markets up to domestic and foreign competition, people's natural self-interest would promote greater prosperity than with stringent government regulations.
A. Jacques Cartier is the first French settlement
