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The future of the postcommunist states in Eastern Europe depends largely on the chosen constitutional framework. Joining the European Community (EC) of the West European countries, if possible at all, or imitating such a structure in the East entails the risk of a slow economic recovery caused by the corporativism in the EC. Here, investigated are the conditions under which this process can be accelerated & what effects this will have on the rights of individual freedom, drawing on the moral philosophy of the Enlightenment. It is concluded that there is an innergroup & an intergroup limit of state activity, both not sufficient to reduce the growth of government to a minimal extent, & hence, not sufficient for a free & prosperous East Europe.