We elect senators and representatives for the House. They basically make up what the people who elected them wants, but some are corrupt so they don't really listen to the people. They mainly listen to the people who fund their campaigns. What we do have are the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Amendments to protect our rights such as forcing the person we elected to do what we want, because if they don't we can "fire" them and elect new ones. (petition)
The United States's recession was for only seven months and eventually lead to the Great Depression in 1929. On the other hand, Germany was much harder due to their debts that are needed to be paid and that was because of the Treaty of Versailles that obliged the Germany to pay the Allied Powers its debt.
religion changed because of if you're a member of indulgence were sold in catholic churches luther and calvin were against it so they set up their own practices .An our lives our similar due to the negative affects that were applied