One does not need a law degree or a degree in history to grasp these truth's.

The God of the Bible is whom the United States is based upon.
“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”.

When the United States became a nation, it was done in the “name of the most holy and undivided Trinity.” 

Psalm 18:2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

Faulty thinking and fallacious ideas we have erred; but we can learn from those mistakes. 

In deed, we must revisit becoming a more thoughtful people in the examen of what true freedom meant in its several dimensions and deeper levels.

Americans originally organized themselves politically around a spiritual framework which, paradoxically, regarded politics as relatively unimportant.

Capitalism is rooted in the cultural heritage of the West, Christendom, and you can’t have the fruits without the roots; you cannot merely wish an end result—to will the end is to will the means.

The law was to protect life, liberty and property, so that men and women could better attend to the more important things in life other than contending with all curses associated with unbridled  mammon. 

Mere wishes will never transform where cultural conditions did not adequately prepare the ground for it. 
A created being who bears a unique relation to God, being formed in His image means that man possesses free will and the ability to initiate and command his own actions. 

This free being was to stand under the moral law as it was laid down in the original constitution of things responsible for discovering how those laws were to be obeyed as one unified  body of  accountable steward's in how they were to be used.

A free-for-all; capitalism never implied the absence of rules. 
Once you have a society whose rules are designed to offer equal justice for all persons, then everyone is free to pursue his personal goals.

Adam Smith once spoke of “allowing every man to pursue his own interest in his own way,” and if those words are lifted out of context they do suggest a desperate no- holds-barred, rough and tumble struggle for money and power. 

But when we know that these two lines from Smith follow one another in the same sentence his meaning is unmistakable. 
He is advocating a society based on equality, liberty and justice.

A paragraph from the little book Bureaucracy.

“Mankind would never have reached the present state of civilization without heroism and self-sacrifice on the part of an elite. 

Every step forward on the way toward an improvement of moral conditions has been an achievement of men who were ready to sacrifice their own well-being, their health, and their lives for the sake of a cause that they considered just and beneficial. 

They did what they considered their duty without bothering whether they themselves would not be victimized. 

These people did not work for the sake of reward, they served their cause unto death.”