The ideals of capitalism are the ideals of classical Liberalism: small government limited mainly to the protection of citizens rights under the standard of "nat

The ideals of capitalism are the ideals of classical Liberalism: small government limited mainly to the protection of citizens rights under the standard of "natural law". Intellectual property isn't such a right, because unlike with real physical property, when you "steal" intellectual property from somebody you're not preventing them from using it in future. I can't imagine many of the founding fathers would be supportive of the massive state apparatus for enforcing IP.