Dedicated to promoting and protecting the principles of limited government and individual liberties, free markets, and traditional South Carolina values. The South Carolina Policy Council, founded in 1986, is SC's longest-serving free-market research organization. Nonpartisan and independent, SCPC is dedicated to promoting limited government, individual liberties, free markets, and traditional SC values. The South Carolina Policy Council was founded in 1986 as an independent, private, non-partisan research organization to promote the principles of limited government, free enterprise and individual liberty and responsibility in the state of South Carolina.