The main reason why Congress worked to keep a balance between the number of slaveholding states and free states is because they wanted to avoid war breaking out between the North and the South. They tried to do this through a series of compromises that ultimately failed.
<span>Social darwinism and laissez faire economics were most closely associated with the interests of big business owners. Big business owners had the most to gain from embracing such tactics. With social darwinism and laissez faire these business owners could prevent the government from trying to regulate them and they could take out rival companies and potentially monopolize whichever market they operated in.</span>
What is the role of Government?
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, monitor the economy, businesses, and banks; maintaining the education system, roads, and public utilities, regulating the safety of food and medicine
