Senate and congress members can have direct influence in the passing of the laws. They're the one who make the proposals of the vast majority of legislations and conducted the votes to determine which law proposal should be actualized.
The President of United States could create laws through Executive orders. These orders will be treated similarly as the legislative proposal from the Congress. The orders could only be overturn if the Judicial branch determine they're unconstitutional or members of the congress rejected it with supermajority of the votes.
Individual citizens do not have the ability to be directly involved in creating the law. But, they can choose the government representatives who are directly involve in it. So, these citizens can make suggestion to those representatives and they have to follow it if they wanted to keep their position in the next election.
Here we have two different decisions.<em><u> Opportunity cost</u></em> of buying the CD and not buying the DVD is 1: ($11-$10). And <em><u>opportunity cost</u></em> of buying the CD and not buying the new T-shirt is 4: ($14-10). <em><u>Opportunity cost</u></em> is the difference between the value of the option chosen and the value of the best option not made. If the option I choose gives me a benefit of 10 but there is an alternative option offered by 12, the opportunity cost is 2.
Some are more desirable because every person has a personal preference that appeals to them and if it isn't appealing to them or if society likes one more, it would naturally draw the to it.
The United States feared communism because it goes against everything we know. We are all independent and communism would take that away. Communism would looked at as evil.
The south made their living with agricultural, and needed people to pick cash crops for cheap. they found that they made great profits having slaves, as they picked without pay