In your lifetime, what decisions has the government made about increasing or decreasing this type of regulation? What have been
the effects of those decisions? Compare the issues and outcomes to those of the early twentieth century decisions to regulate big business in the Progressive Era. You might also consider whether the media serve a similar "muckraking" role in causing this pendulum to swing one way or another.
Abraham Lincoln was an entrepreneur in New Salem, Illinois, owning a business, while at the same time being a fledgling, or novice, political candidate.
