So...ALL of the founders felt the same way? Unlikely.
Yes. Did all the people of the late 18th century feel that way? Of course not. Many of the landed and more wealthy people did not want war with England or to ruffle the feathers of the crown who favored them.
But among the Founders, certainly there were differences of opinion on the issue of slavery, how strong the central government should be, how revenues to run the government would be collected and who would provide them, how the powers related to the federal government would be allocated among the various state, etc. But they sat down eyeball to eyeball, debated, discussed, and worked it all out until they had a Constitution that all could pledge to support, promote, and defend. It took them six long years of discussion, debate, negotiation, compromise, and deliberation to achieve that document. And most of another year to achieve ratification by the states.
All the Founders, to a man, believed in the concept of unalienable rights and that people were free only when they were free to choose their own destiny and be allowed to suffer or benefit from the consequences of the choices they made. In other words they agreed, to a man, that the federal government would secure our rights and then leave us alone to form whatever sort of society we wished to have. We would be the first people on Earth who would have their unalienable rights recognized and protected and who would then be free to govern ourselves.
The concept made us unique among all nations that had ever existed--American exceptionalism--and produced the most productive, innovative, creative, prosperous, and free people the world had ever known.
And we now have an element in our society who seem to want to undo the entire concept and return us to the authority of and submission to a government who will often not have our best interests at heart because it is not the nature of government to care about the governed as much as it cares about the government.
So the answer is "no", good thanks.
Yet somehow, you decode what "they" thought and broadcast it time and again.
Why don't you be honest and say, "The founders I agree with thought this...."? It won't carry as much weight of course but it will be more correct.
PS: your foolish thought that the "founders" wanted the people to rule is a misnomer. If you would endeavor to read the 17th Amendment--passed less than 100 years ago--it was only then you could vote for Senator.
Just one of the many ways you're wrong when invoking "the founders" tripe you bring up on a daily basis.
Well I won't bore you with the concept any further. But if you think the Founders did not intend the people to governm themselves rather than be governed, you are woefully unschooled in their concepts and what they gave us. That they were human with diverse opinions only makes it all more authentic and it in no way gets in the way of the final consensuses on which they all agreed.
And the 17th amendment had nothing at all to do with any of that.