What Is A Constitutional Capitalist?

It is a person that believes that the contract between the grantor (the citizens) and its grantee (the government) must be followed precisely and enforced by the citizens, rather than the other way around.

It is a person who believes that our government and other institutions should be constructed and operated so as to encourage the creation and import of capital to fund wealth building activities of the citizens of this country, rather than to plunder capital and encourage it to leave our shores or be hidden.

It means that constitutionally limited government is best and best achieved by explicit following of the Constitution, and that good intentions or new eras are not sufficient means to artificially amend (without documentation or vote) the explicit requirements and/or limitations of federal government to current whims and desires. You follow the explicit dictates of the governmental contract of the Constitution, and if there is evidence that the contract needs modification, the amendment process is followed. If desirable, individual States and localities may pursue such policies as allowable under their own charters.

It means that government’s taxing power is to be performed in the most efficient, equitable, and transparent manner possible while encouraging the creation of individual wealth and capital, which will in turn enable others and future generations to produce ever greater wealth and capital, rather than as a means of controlling behavior or a means of distributing political spoils.

It means that decision making and choices are, as defined in the Constitution, properly made at the individual level and that the most local level of governmental agency should become involved only where decisions are in fact directly impairing another individual’s rights to life, liberty, or property – in that order.

In its simplest form, it represents people who want the freedom to live their lives in true liberty, striving to better themselves and their families, without the heavy hand of government dictating how, where, or when they may engage in those behaviors or limiting or discouraging productive activity.


It is, in short, an American.