Answer: The correct answer is : According to the opinion of the French philosophers, if the government allowed free trade, the economy could prosper.
Explanation: The French economic philosophers of enlightenment claimed that all government regulations prevent wealth. Everyone thought that natural laws governed economic life. Their ideas were directed to the creation of laissez-fair (let-do) capitalism .
The first permanent English settlements were at Jamestown (1607) (along with its satellite, Bermuda in 1609) and Plymouth (1620), in what are today Virginia and Massachusetts respectively.