According to Adam Smith, <em>mercantilist policies that limited trade prevented the expansion of trade with other countries.
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Smith considered that government intervention was no good in the economics of a country. He said that a free trade market was what a country needs. Otherwise, mercantilist policies limit trade and don’t allow its expansion abroad. Protectionism limited production and was a way to promote monopolies. If this happened, competition suffered.
Smith proposed that in order to achieve permanent economic growth with its social benefits in society, the government did not need to maintain economic privileges. <u>He totally supported the free market.
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While there are two ways, only one has ever been used. All 27 Amendments have been ratified after two-thirds of the House and Senate approve of the proposal and send it to the states for a vote. Then, three-fourths of the states must affirm the proposed Amendment.
"Weary of the 'Negro Question'" and "sick of carpet-bag' government" signifies the Northerner's tiredness of trying to solve the race problem in the South and they were suspicious of what they were beginning to see such as a corrupt government.
