Do liberals know what authors the founding fathers found persuasive and informative? If liberals knew the answer to this one question, no liberal would ever dare to compare the founding fathers with modern American liberals. Here are some of the authors and their works whom the founders praised, used, and quoted:
Adam Smith,
The Wealth of Nations
William Blackstone,
Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England
William Rawle,
A View of the Constitution (Rawle knew several of the founders, including George Washington)
John Locke,
Second Treatise of Government
Liberal "professors" have attacked all of these works.
You wanna compare George Washington with modern liberals? Well, Washington viewed homosexuality as unnatural and anti-societal conduct. He had gay soldiers drummed out of the Continential Army.
How about James Madison? He proposed the Second Amendment. In the Virginia ratification convention, he helped write this article (no. 17):
That the people have a right to keep and bear to arms; that a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people trained to arms, is the proper, natural and safe defence of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, and therefore ought to be avoided, as far as the circumstances and protection of the community will admit; and that, in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
Notice that the people's right to keep and bear arms is clearly understood as being separate from the need for a militia.