The Founders were radicals of their time.
Conservatives they were not.
No shit.
But measured by the definition we use today, the only ones they could identify with today are conservatives.
For, you see, they did not do all the things they did, including putting their lives on the line and crafting our very form of government just to generate a document that is paid only lip service.
The fundamental notion of limited government is the notion embraced by today's conservatives; it is not embraced at all by the damn liberals of today. In fact, liberals of today are fucking Statists and the Founders and the Framers would reject the political philosophy of today's "liberals" for that reason and for many others.
Limited government means LIMITED GOVERNMENT.
Abortion was legal in the late 1700s for whites only. Slaves were forbidden to abort.
Today's "conservatives" do not support limited government. They support prohibition, bans on gay military service, gay marriage and abortion.
They are all about government forcing their agenda on society.
Limited government means none of those bans or prohibitions.