The free market can have an enormously beneficial effect on politics also. In the United States, there is a system of "checks and balances" against tyranny: the three branches of the federal government, Congress, the presidency, and the courts, check and limit the power of each other. Also, the state governments and the people themselves (as through town hall meetings and free speech) check and limit the power of all three branches of the federal government. But the free market may be the most powerful check on tyranny of all. Government cannot easily control and limit what the free market supplies and demands -- as the example of the Tyndale Bible illustrated. | The free market can have an enormously beneficial effect on politics also. In the United States, there is a system of "checks and balances" against tyranny: the three branches of the federal government, Congress, the presidency, and the courts, check and limit the power of each other. Also, the state governments and the people themselves (as through town hall meetings and free speech) check and limit the power of all three branches of the federal government. But the free market may be the most powerful check on tyranny of all. Government cannot easily control and limit what the free market supplies and demands -- as the example of the Tyndale Bible illustrated. |