Where in the US Constitution is a capitalistic economy mandated?
The Constitution nowhere mandates a capitalistic economy. It does mandate a republican (small “r”) form of government in Article IV. “Section 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.” All the Constitution says about the economy is related to interstate and international commerce and the slave trade. “No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one state, be obliged to enter, clear or pay duties in another.” http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articlei.html#section10 “To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;” “Section 9. The migration or importation of such persons as an