The Founders believed in carefully delineated federal powers either broad (Hamilton) or limited (Jefferson, sometimes) but all believed in a more powerful state than libertarians purport to believe in
Ah, the old libertarians are anarchists gag. No, they didn't. They got it pretty much exactly right. I just want the Constitution enforced. Particularly the 10th amendment. And I'd like to repeal some of the crap that was added later, particularly the 16th and 17th amendments which were contrary to the founders vision to balance State and Federal power and the income tax is a pure Gestapo power over the people.
If ever there was a libertarian document it was the Articles of Confederation. There was no national power. The federal government could not tax. Its laws were not supreme over state laws. It was in fact, the hot mess that critics of libertarians believe their dream state would be ... and it was recognized as such by the majority of the country and was why the Constitution was ratified.
The Articles of Confederation is the true libertarian founding document and this explains the failure of libertarianism.
The Founders Were No Libertarians
The Articles of Confederation were virtual anarchy. While anarchists call themselves libertarians, I am referring to small government libertarians, not no government anarchists. Here you go, I got general agreement I was pretty accurate from libertarians
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Give me specifics what you think the founding fathers supported that libertarians don't.