free enterprise

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The document’s nods to U.S. political freedom, free enterprise and civil society as sources of national power are welcome.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

“And in 2010, Chief Justice Roberts explained in free enterprise that people don’t vote for officers of the United States.”

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2023

Mr. Muratov, 61, sits in an office featuring a photograph of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the leader now reviled by many Russians, who rejected Communism in favor of free speech, free enterprise and open borders.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2023

For many immigrants, a 7-Eleven store embodied the classic idea of free enterprise, where “it was literally up to you how much money you made,” Shawn Bhamipuri says.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2023

But they seemed gratified, as Mayor Don Carter, who was one of those to go big-time belly up, put it, to have taken a “chance in the free enterprise market.”

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger