What does the government do to protect competition in a free-market system? explain why the government needs to take these actions.

Congress and each administration work together to pass and enforce legislation that guarantees free competition, regulates different aspects of business operations and services, and makes sure that large corporations don´t block or suffocate other competitors in the market (anti-trust laws). A free-market economy relies on competition by private companies and entrepreneurship, but there are situations in which some big corporations occupy a dominant position, have the largest market share, and try to eliminate weaker competitors. That´s why anti-trust laws and other regulations are necessary.

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the hereditary right of a monarch to rule from the mandate of heaven

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.