Executive orders you mean. Ignoring the Constitution when it pleases you, with the same impunity as the Republicans before you did.
Your description of the founders is a bastardization of what they actually stood for. They were not liberals of your stripe, Sallow. They were Classical Liberals who held more in common with the conservatives of today. But hey, I don't see YOU extolling their virtues, now do I? Catch up.
The founders abhorred absolute rule. You on the other hand favor absolute government intervention and unlimited authority in the executive branch. They supported the checks and balances, you want to usurp two branches of government to give unabridged power to the executive.
Doesn't matter if you never said so yourself, its written in the behavior of your party and your president. Yes. YOUR president, not mine. Any leader who holds the Constitution with such utter disregard is no leader of mine.
Here's the thing.
They were Liberals at the time. They believed that folks not in the Aristocracy should be able to manage their own lives, make money from their own innovation and be able to vote on people that represent them in government.
All of that was very Liberal.
However, they had views that modern liberals did not keep.
They felt that people who weren't white were not equal. They felt that women were not equal. They felt that landowners should be the only folks that vote.
I guess for you folks..that "Classical". For modern Liberals? That's wrong.
You haven't the slightest clue what a classical liberal is, do you? The views they espoused then are the views conservatives now hold. By that I mean limited government, free enterprise, equal representation and etc.
Imagine living in a time when it was legal to discriminate, to hold slaves, to objectify women, now insert them into today's world. They would be seen as barbarians. But yet, we all manage to see past that and extol them for founding this great nation of ours.
But I must address one other thing.
Unlike you and your party, they did favor freedom from Aristocracy. However, you sit there and condone the egregious violations of power enacted by the president; who frankly acts like an aristocrat himself. You advocate government intervention, thus limiting a citizen's right to manage their lives. The founders on the other hand believed that a man has the right to life, liberty, property and happiness. Your views and theirs are complete contradictions of one another. Don't try to sit there and claim them as your own.