RE: there are several examples where you can have free economic systems without/before having a free political system.
So this is the goal for you and your ilk? Economic freedom as the exclusive goal, and political freedom be damned? If so, I urge you to leave my country and move to the PRC or some other hellish fascist land, for you are not wanted by those of us who believe in the USA and its Constitution.
Um, I urge you to leave. I was born here. You can take the hike. And you have no idea what I "believe." I just stated a fact: ECONOMICS COMES FIRST. Always has, always will. The U.S. colonies had a relatively open economic system, based on property rights, LONG before the Constitution was adopted. Indeed, as I recall, the entire Revolution was about "economics"---something about "no taxation without representation."