The first of many was the idea of ​​laissez faire. This is where the government lets entrepreneurs do whatever they want. This would have caused a lot of problems because the prices of products would have skyrocketed and many people would not have been able to afford the things they needed to survive. This policy could also help people recover what the government has taken away. In the document entitled In defense of laissez-faire we read “thus, in our attempts to improve, through legislation, the conditions of the poor, we have not only multiplied their number, but we have reduced them to a previously unknown state of degradation”. The government caused this because of “our poor laws and our charities, we have impoverished and almost ruined the country” (In Defense of Laissez-Faire). If this policy had been adopted, the government would have been placed under restrictions, allowing businesses to have the freedom to control the market