Capitalism promotes free trade and free market while mercantilism limits the trade between countries so that more money is entering the country than out. Merchants will have a larger selection of what to sell under capitalism and unregulated sales.
The answer could be that how his family and White House mislead the public about his illness. James Reston comments that journalists do not take the health of candidates seriously and that needs to change.
The Articles of Confederation was the initial document that was set up which formed the US government. It served as a constitution for the time before the actual Constitution was drafted. It gave the central government little power as there wasn't a real executive authority established in it.
