This Act, by prohibiting private monopolization, unreasonable restraint of trade and unfair trade practices, by preventing excessive concentration of economic power and by eliminating unreasonable restraint on production, sale, price, technology and the like, and all other unjust restriction of business. The economic role of competition is to discipline the various participants in economic life to provide their goods and services skillfully and cheaply.
the declaration of independence said that they wanted to colonists to be a free country and separate from england. Meaning they did not want the government to hold that much power.