Have you ever wondered where all the ideal ideas for American government came from.”The Age of Enlightenment” or “The Age of Reason” was the age when people gave new bright ideas towards the government.A lot of the ideas for American government came from the Enlightenment period.Philosophers from the 17th and the 18th century a lot of ideas of great ideas on the topics of religious,social,economic,and political freedoms.
Adam Smith believed that people were free and they can pursue whatever they wanted.Smith supported individual decision making so that people could get wealthy so that the country would be wealthy.He talks about the “invisible hand” and that represents the desires of the people and pushes them to do what they loved.He stated “Every man … is perfectly left to pursue his own interests in his own way.”Smith is right because everybody tried to get wealthy by doing what they loved that the whole country would be wealthy because people would want to go to work everyday if they did what they loved.
Adam Smith believed that people were free and they can pursue whatever they wanted.Smith supported individual decision making so that people could get wealthy so that the country would be wealthy.He talks about the “invisible hand” and that represents the desires of the people and pushes them to do what they loved.He stated “Every man … is perfectly left to pursue his own interests in his own way.”Smith is right because everybody tried to get wealthy by doing what they loved that the whole country would be wealthy because people would want to go to work everyday if they did what they loved.