Entrepreneur: a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk[2]. We don’t need to own or manage a business to be an entrepreneur. Anyone who takes responsibility with initiative, an innovative spirit, resiliency, and a willingness to take risk, in their work specifically and in their life generally, can rightfully claim the title of entrepreneur.
The word Entrepreneur in Constitutional Entrepreneur emphasizes the need for…
- A High Degree Of Personal Responsibility, Initiative, Innovation, Resiliency, and a Risk Taking, both by and for themselves and their families, is what Constitutional Entrepreneurs expect of themselves and have a right to expect of their fellow citizens. Long-term dependence on the Federal Government for anything other than what is Constitutionally legitimate is at odds is not just selfish, it's theft. This does not mean that Constitutional Entrepreneurs seek to be totally independent. But it does mean that the interactions that they have with and contributions that they make to others should in large measure be voluntary, not coerced by government.
- A Strong Private Sector in which competitors thrive or fail based on their entrepreneurial skill, not based on favors from the Federal Government, such as subsidies or what are effectively government imposed limits the number of competitors in particular markets.
- States Competing As Laboratories Of Democracy on which various approaches to governing and are allowed to succeed or fail. The best ideas will be voluntarily adopted by the other states and tailored to their own needs.
The opposite of an an entrepreneurial attitude is one of victimhood and dependency.
Our nation has faces many problems that have been made worse by an over-reaching Federal Government. Our communities face many problems such as getting adequate healthcare and education, public safety (especially solving domestic violence issues), drug addiction, homelessness, and affordable housing. The best innovative solutions to all of these problems and more are best designed, funded, and implemented at the state and local levels with our our businesses and local nonprofits, churches and community groups playing key roles, accompanied by a renewed emphasis on individual responsibility. These are solutions developed by the people closest to the problems and the people who have those difficulties, not by a Federal Government that has grossly exceeded its legitimate authority and that has such a demonstrated history of failure.
[2] This definition of an Entrepreneur is from Dictionary.com