Our Founding Fathers fought for ACTUAL freedom, to shape a Free Republic where men were governed under a system that recognized the natural rights of man and government based upon the consent of the governed.
No leader of America from George Washington onward could correctly be called an autocrat. They were elected for a defined term to exercise defined Constitutional powers that were limited and enumerated.
There has been a trend TOWARDS autocracy, with Presidents doing through regulation what they could not through legislation; but that is hardly the fault of our Founding Fathers - but a lack of courage on the part of our Congress and the SCOTUS and the States to utilize the Constitution to keep the Presidency in check.
What is with all the anti-American garbage on FR lately?
Agree with the Founding Fathers about men's natural rights to be free and you are a naive idealist?
The Constitution is archaic and we should admire those more modern Constitutions of the Scandinavians?
Now the Founding Fathers were just fighting for the freedom to be ruled by a “home-grown” autocrat?
Disgusting!
"“A Republic, if you can keep it.” (which we have not kept well)
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."